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Comment This should have happened long ago (Score 5, Interesting) 74

This has been available for decades. Gmail has supported this since its inception. My personal email server supports it as well. I use it to sort mails and find out who sold my address out. For example, if I ever received an email from username+slashdot@domain.com, that's not from slashdot, I'll know they sold the list. Been using this system for years.

Hate to say it but, good on Microsoft for finally implementing it. Now if we can just get websites to not reject an email input into a form with a + in it as an "invalid character".

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Microsoft Adds Support For Custom '+' Email Addresses in Office 365 (zdnet.com) 74

Microsoft is adding support for custom email addressing to Office 365 email services, a feature it hopes to complete in Q3 2020. From a report: Custom email addresses are an optional feature that some email providers can support. The feature is described in the RFC 5233 internet standard. Officially known as subaddressing, this standard allows users to extend their email address using "tags" or the plus (+) character, hence its two alternative names of tagged addressing or plus addressing. For example, a user with the email address of username@domain.com can use the plus addressing feature to extend their email address to username+tag@domain.com. If the user's email address supports subaddressing, all emails sent to the username+tag@domain.com email will land in the user's username@domain.com inbox.

Comment Re:Seems logical (Score 1) 481

It is the responsibility of the Federal government to guide and coordinate resources for situations that effect multiple states during a national crisis, like say, a pandemic. Key words being "national crisis". So far, the states have gotten nearly zero guidance or leadership from the Federal government. It's a giant clusterfuck because there is no coordinated effort or direction. It's basically a "fend for yourself free for all" which ends up screwing everyone. For things that are effecting the entire country, that kind of critical coordination and planning should be handled at the Federal level, and enacted by the individual states.

This is precisely why the USA is in the position that it currently finds itself.

Comment Re: Interesting timing (Score 3, Interesting) 213

I'm assuming you're talking about the V-22? If so, the problem was almost always pilot error. I've worked on these, and in the early testing days, right up until the B revision came out, they were putting helicopter pilots into them. Therein lies the problem. A helo pilot's muscle memory and reactions are all completely backwards from what they need to be, so, when things started to get a little out of control, the pilots would react in the exact opposite way that they needed to in order to not crash. Once they made the switch to using C-130 pilots in them, the issues mostly went away.

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