Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Spam (thread drift) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:14:02 +0100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <3071eb-fub.ln1@squidward.local.dionic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net IJJxvQcXwaT29SckqOCqVA1jMwcNSOfdrKjBpXuhco9seCfD5a X-Orig-Path: squidward.local.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:xUUr0DjmhkXpuIVxvmjHy50F7YQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:12071 On 09/09/14 10:12, Marc Haber wrote: > Tim Watts wrote: >> Sadly many web devs are ill educated and don't consider + to be part of >> an email address (me - I actually read the RFCs and checked). >> >> I've even had one where it was accepted during signup to buy something >> then when they spammed me, the unsubscribe web page refused to work as >> it was "an invalid email address". > > Yes, such things happen as well. There are even web devs that wouldn't > accept local---tag@domain.example, which I have configured in my exim > as an alternative to +. A single instead of "plus" has not caused me any problems so far - including the same sites that choke on a plus. Stupid really as Gmail allows plussed addresses by default.