The Frustration Loop

Re:The Frustration Loop by tofurocks on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:03AM (#37621474)

You can do something similar with Gmail - if your email is [email protected] you can receive to [email protected], matt+2 etc. Although some websites reject this format.

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Re:The Frustration Loop by Rygian on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:47AM (#37621644)

Spammers will definitely remove the + suffix.

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Re:The Frustration Loop by cobbaut on Saturday September 23, 2023 @05:25AM (#37621774)

While the + is part of the RFC, many websites do not accept a +sign in an email address field.

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Re:The Frustration Loop by Vinnl on Saturday September 23, 2023 @05:34AM (#37621816)

Or worse, they'll accept it, but then some backend system trips over it, and now the product you ordered never ships to you, but customer service doesn't know how to refund it either.

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Re:The Frustration Loop by jcynix on Saturday September 23, 2023 @07:25AM (#37622250)

I've been "fighting" many websites in the last 20+ years, which use(d) javascript libaries which accept "only a-z, 0-9 and _" as valid characters in a local part. Some even changed their code after I complained and pointed them to the relevant parts of RFC822 (and all successors)

IMNSHO: sysadmins who do not know that the local part of an email address is not of their concern (as long as it complies to RFC 822++), are not worth their money. And web designers? Don't get me started on that topic ;-0

Edit: ok, they even allow "." and "-" in local parts.

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Re:The Frustration Loop by everybodyknows on Saturday September 23, 2023 @02:39PM (#37626086)

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