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> Registration error. Email address must not include a "+" character. Why not? "+" is valid in email addresses.
by gl0w 8y ago
> Registration error. Email address must not include a "+" character.
Why not? "+" is valid in email addresses.
- teddyh 8y agoThey want to spam you later (or sell your address to spammers) and have you not know where they got the address.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoMore likely, they just googled "e-mail vaildation regex" and copied the first/smallest result from StackOverflow. Happens all the time.
- lowercased 8y agonot sure that's this. if you just grabbed the first one, you wouldn't necessarily know that it explicitly doesn't work with the "+". Explicitly calling out the "+" issues indicates the person likely knows what they're doing.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoUh, you're right. My eyes missed the fact that this calls out the "+" character explicitly.
- ardy42 8y ago> They want to spam you later (or sell your address to spammers) and have you not know where they got the address. Email +suffixes are easy enough to strip off post-collection if you're aware of them. If they wanted to spam, they wouldn't have to disallow +'s in the validation regex. They must have some other reason for disallowing them, which may be as innocent as poor awareness of them. Personally, I used Fastmail with my own domain and have abandoned using +suffixes because they're too unreliable. Fastmail has several options for single-use email addresses that should be difficult or impossible for recipients to decode to the main address.
- Eric_WVGG 8y agoMy guess is that they are trying to prevent a spammer from registering lots of accounts from a single email address. (And yeah I know there is the fee to dissuade that, but who knows what the future may hold...)