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If nobody supports it then why did you choose it?

• wpietri 7y ago
  This sort of snotty reply is one of the reasons I discourage people from using HN. I chose it 20+ years ago because that's what qmail supported, back when subaddresing was a new idea. Over the ensuing years, most people ended up converging on + as the more common option, but that's only convention, not a standard. And what standard exists wasn't written until 2008: https://tools.https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233ietf.org/html/rfc5233 https://tools.https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233ietf.org/ht...
  • jimmaswell 7y ago
    If you took that as snotty then that's on you. Maybe people who can't take every simple question not being a delicately delivered paragraph full of qualifiers should be discouraged from using HN, yeah.
    • wpietri 7y ago
      Yes, please continue to blame readers for your words landing badly. That will surely work out well for you.