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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by fullstop on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:29AM (#27264092)
Ages ago, back in myspace days, their system would permit + when creating an account, but could not handle this in their forgot password / password reset system. I never was able to delete my account because of this.
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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by inopinatus on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:33AM (#27264145)
Sony's SEN used to have an account creation page that would permit +, but subsequent sign-in interpreted it as a URL-encoded whitespace. No login for you
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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by ezekg on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:52AM (#27264359)
lol you should have tried to enter a URL-encoded plus sign, %2B.
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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by torstenvl on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:53PM (#27266692)
All social media accounts are delectable on a long enough timescale.
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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by fullstop on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:56PM (#27266754)
As it happens, it was eventually done for me:

https://mashable.com/article/myspace-data-loss/

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