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Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by cggarvey on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @09:45AM (#17450109)
I’ve run into sites that consider + invalid within an email address. It would also be easy for a site that wants to sell off user info to have a regex strip the +sitename from emails prior to selling the list.
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Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by repsilat on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @06:31PM (#17454113)
The worst I've dealt with is a site that allows + within an email address for signup but not unsubscribe. They've been hitting my spam folder for years now...
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Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by mdaniel on Saturday July 07, 2018 @12:11AM (#17476948)
Just in case you haven't tried it, I have found that about 80% of the time, they have some frontend JS regex that blocks the form, but using the wizardry of one's choosing, if you managed to get the email address posted to the endpoint, all is well.
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Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by whatsstolat on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @01:27AM (#17455419)
Lucky you have the + to filter them out then.
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