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[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 218 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Jokes aside, I have been blocked many times by overzealous email validation. Yes, my email has a plus sign in it. This is allowed under RFC5322, so deal with it. It is better to have no validation at all than incorrect validation.

[-] kossa@feddit.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

That was my best customer support interaction ever. Company did not let me register with a "new" TLD email address, as "this is not a valid email address". I wrote them from that email address. They respondend to that email address with "this is not a valid address". I wrote back "how are we writing, then?" and never heard back ๐Ÿ˜‚

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