Is the below quote still accurate?

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When I first signed up to the site, it said "email optional" so I didn't put one in. I then signed up successfully without email.

When I tried to put one in, just so I would recieve email notifications if possible, I got the error previously described.

But then when I tried to resend the request, the email was changed without any confirmation sent to my email adress.