The most useful under-used feature of email

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Better to register your own domain name, and give every website a different address. And if you don't need to have a relationship, use throwaway account like mailinator..

"If you sign up for some website that requires an email address (especially if they might spam), using a + alias lets you create a filter for the stuff they send"

It's a great idea...but I'm encountering more and more sites that reject your email address outright if a + is in there anywhere.

Do you think they're intentionally blacklisting the +, or are they just writing sloppy validation/regexes that aren't up to the spec?

Hard to say.

I've encountered it on some very large and famous websites, so I'm thinking it's not always the fault of a bad regex.

If this happens to you, you can also use the period sign with GMail. So johndoe@gmail.com also receives email addressed to john.doe@gmail.com j.o.hndoe@gmail.com, johnd.o.e@gmail.com, etc.

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