On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:11:39 +0100 (BST), "Alan J. Flavell"
<a.flavell@???> wrote:
>However, I'm finding that registrations which demand my email address
>are typically refusing to accept "+" as part of my address - so, even
>though *I* could use it, *they* won't. Whether this is deliberate
>(they worked out that people using "+" are trying to track who they
>sell the address to), or they're just too badly educated to know
>what's legal, I can't say.
I'd guess that they just are not familiar with the technical basics of
their business, not knowing which characters are allowed in an e-mail
addresses' local part.
There is unbearable stupidity out there.
Unfortunately, the Spammers are getting smarter, and the numbers of
spam successfully sent to mh+some-suffix@??? are rapidly
approaching the numbers of spam bouncing off some-suffix@???.
Developers of commercially-used web apps don't seem to get any
smarter, though.
Greetings
Marc, ranting
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