The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by lorenzhs on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:31AM (#24362299)

The number of sites that send mail to "[email protected]" when you give them "[email protected]" is staggering, too. It's a mystery to me why they would ever want to do that, but it happens a lot.

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by 0xFluegel on Thursday September 03, 2020 @06:33AM (#24362628)

I can see how that happens immediatly...

    var domain = addr.split(['@','.']).take_last(2)
    var tld = domain[1]
    // check TLD against wacky rules...

See, boss, it's easy. What's next?

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by snet0 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:03AM (#24363139)

It's also possibly just some arcane regex incantation that someone implemented 12 years ago and nobody has been able to decipher it since.

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