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Re:I couldn't buy a car because my email address was 'invalid' by bzb3 on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:51AM (#23966258)
If you can explain why your email address was rejected, then you didn't buy a car because you didn't want to.
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Re:I couldn't buy a car because my email address was 'invalid' by Gunax on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:12PM (#23967122)
That's true, but wouldn't make for an interesting blog post.

Yes, I'm sure the author could go register [email protected], but it's really a post about incorrect assumptions.

This blog should really be understood as another in the "falsehoods programmers believe about..." series.

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Re:I couldn't buy a car because my email address was 'invalid' by perl4ever on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:06PM (#23971613)
Surely you can buy a car without any email address.

...oh, this was online only. Well there's your problem.

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Re:I couldn't buy a car because my email address was 'invalid' by db48x on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:02PM (#23966995)
Not from that retailer, at any rate.
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