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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by muzani on Thursday September 03, 2020 @10:12PM (#24371085)
You could probably put a +. Instead of [email protected], it could be [email protected] or [email protected]. These would still forward it to [email protected] [0]

This has the side effect of knowing who has been selling out your email to spammers.

[0] https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addr...

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by cik on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:56AM (#24373112)
I mean I legit wish I owned cik.com, that'd be awesome :p. Seriously though tonnes of folks fail the +. You know what's especially awesome? Ever try shot non-UTF8 domains. Those are fun.
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