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Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by jtwebman on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:16PM (#14598696)
With gmail you can just do [email protected] and it will send it to [email protected]. The nice thing about this service though is you can just remove the fake email and they can't email you anymore.
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Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by mmanfrin on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:19PM (#14598711)
There are a fair number of sites with broken regexes/validations that reject emails with +s in them.
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Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by massaman_yams on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:21PM (#14598731)
I have also observed emails tagged with "+" to break unsubscribe links in cases where the address is included in the link and the link is not properly URL-encoded.
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Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by rhizome on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:26PM (#14599110)
RFC-violating email regexes cause problems less and less all the time, and much less often than just 5 years ago.
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