An anonymous reader writes
"I've recently started using tagged email addresses (Eg. membership+facebook@example.com) hoping to identify/eliminate sources of spam, But I find that a lot of websites have broken validation regex which reject perfectly valid email addresses (according to RFC2822 the part before the @ shouldn't concern anyone other than the host handling mail for that domain). And yet I find a lot of websites rejecting valid email addresses, while some of them have agreed to fix the problem others seem to be believe they get to dictate what an email address on my domain should look like.
Here is an email I got from facebook when I complained about their site not allowing me to sign up.
From: "Madison from Facebook"
Reply-To: comment-info-rt@facebook.com
Message-ID:
To: *myname*@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:19:07 -0700
Hi *myname*,
Unfortunately we do not support email addresses that contain the +
sign. There are no exceptions to this rule. We sincerely apologize for
any inconvenience this policy may have caused you. Let me know if
you run into any other issues while trying to sign up for Facebook.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,
Madison
Customer Support Representative
Facebook
"
