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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by ryantgtg on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:31PM (#23183442)
I have a site with users, and while we have no interest in selling their addresses, it still strikes me as futile when people add "+mysite" to their address. It would take me 2 seconds in excel to zap all those appendages.
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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by tastroder on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:58PM (#23183817)
Not everybody uses the scheme for some futile security purpose, some sites are just a bit annoying with their outgoing addresses with their non-nefarious communication and the + scheme can be a nice way for rules.
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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by ryantgtg on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:19PM (#23184092)
I hadn't thought of that case. I've always had good luck simple simple rules like, "if @theirsite.com then move to folder".
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