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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012) by tough on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:37AM (#31096736)
Everytime I input my .me domain in one of those well intended websites I get nagged about maybe being wrong and wantint to use .de or whatever.

No, I know my email, thx, it's bein prefilled from auto-complete. Don't fucking tell my Im typing it wrong when 1. Its my email, and I'm not even typing

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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012) by alasdair_ on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:00PM (#31100655)
Related: I used to use me@<myname>.com but gave up because Gmail uses "Me" as the name when displaying a user's own email address and it was confusing people enormously because a thread would look like:

>>>Me wrote: >>Me wrote: >Me wrote: Me wrote:

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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012) by grimjack00 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:09PM (#31099033)
I have the same issues with my .name domain. Most of the reason I have a gmail address as well is for the sites that don't think "[email protected]" is a real address.
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