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In response to "Gmail ignores periods. So if you send something to [email protected], it's no different than [email protected] or any variation. -- nm" by JaxSean

Huh. -- nm

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Dec 10 '18, 09:20

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They also ignore + and anything after it so if you want to make "unique" email addresses to see who is selling your contact info, you can do - oblique Dec 10, 09:21 12
- Didn't they stop that a few years back? -- nm - Shaun Dec 10, 09:35 2
  - No, still works. More websites don't let you do it, though as a check on the front end. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 10, 09:57 1
    - I remember a bunch of years ago when Amazon.ca was giving $10 off an order of $40 or more for new customers. - Shaun Dec 10, 09:59
- Everytime I've tried this the system I was trying to give such an email to would not accept the + -- nm - zork Dec 10, 09:25 5
  - Yeah, that's been the most common glitch in the system. + is a valid SMTP email address per the spec but quite a few places get hung up on it - oblique Dec 10, 09:26 4
    - Yeah, it just depends on how robust the system is that you're creating an email address account/subscription for. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 10, 09:31
    - It they know that truck and are preventing it. -- nm - zork Dec 10, 09:28 1
      - Trick, truck ... Potato, potahto -- nm - zork Dec 10, 09:29
    - The spec is not very well defined, basically any filtering on email address characters is going to hit an edge case. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 09:27
- I did this for my badge at ReInvent, which all the vendors scanned using RFID - giving them my email address. - Beryllium Dec 10, 09:23 2
  - It works really well also for "fooling" hackers because it is typically unique for the place you give your email to but if someone thinks your -- (edited) - oblique Dec 10, 09:25 1
    - This is not what I was expecting and is a valuable tip, thanks. -- nm - zork Dec 10, 09:27
Yeah, it has been mentioned on ST. I use it. You can set up filters using it. -- nm - Spawn Dec 10, 09:20

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