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In response to "Huh. -- nm" by Mop

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

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Dec 10 '18, 09:21

[email protected]

and it will get to you at [email protected] but you will still see the + part.

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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

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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

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