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Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking... by wpietri on Monday January 16, 2023 @10:36AM (#34401640)
For historical reasons I use a dash. This works just fine 99+% of the time, but very rarely a site will not allow a dash in emails.
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Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking... by mnw21cam on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:46PM (#34403328)
Thank you - finally someone who knows that it was always a dash.
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Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking... by hgsgm on Monday January 16, 2023 @01:52PM (#34404115)
What do you mean? What was "it"? Subaddressing semantics has always been at the discretion of the email service provider.
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Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking... by wpietri on Monday January 16, 2023 @09:25PM (#34408440)
As far as I know, subaddressing was invented as part of qmail, which used a dash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail#Innovations
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