Comment by digitalsushi

On the whole, it's probably not a loss. It's probably a gain. On the whole, they validated almost all of the email addresses. They spent their corner case money instead on making the product awesome, and instead of poor []:,;@\\\"!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{}| ~ ? ^_`{}|~.a"@example.org getting a copy, everyone else got something better.