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Websites which have opinions about how the local part of an email address should be constructed can get in the sea.

It's entirely up to me what my localpart looks like and I'll put + signs in it if I want to.

I'm curious what the real rationale is here -- I mean, what difference does it really make to them?

A screenshot from a website signup form declaring: "We do not support subaddressing in emails (β€œ+” sign) on our platform."
in reply to Matthew Slowe

greem
greem
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at least they were polite.

My biggest beef is when the box pops up and says INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS.

Well now, Mx Application Developer, let me introduce you to RFC822 and all subsequent revisions...

in reply to Matthew Slowe

Frederic Barthelemy
Frederic Barthelemy
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@hub I just recently had to deal with a service that banned me using an email address at my personal domain but permitted the `+` when I used gmail. #infuriating #weird
#weird #Infuriating @Hubert Figuière
in reply to Frederic Barthelemy

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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@fbartho and yeah the "everybody using gmail or hotmail". Microsoft does that for their clown services
@Frederic Barthelemy
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