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Re: [LUG] email

 

Gordon Henderson wrote:

> On a personal note, I more or less gave up caring if my email address was 
> published or not, and just developed the tools and means to deal with it. 
> I've had the same email address since 1995 now ... I use the + system for 
> tracking, but the down-side of that is that 95% of all webshites have an 
> email validation system written by some dick-head of a spotty nerd who 
> thought he/she knew what email addresses look like and decided that plus 
> signs were not valid. Probably the same one who decided that computers 
> weren't designed to make our lives easy and insisted on credit cards being 
> typed in as 16 consecutive digits without spaces. Jeez, it's one line of 
> code to remove spaces. Fuckwits.

And relax...

James

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