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"If you’re here at RailsConf today, please come talk to me. This is not reality TV, I am here to make friends."

That sounds great as a first. However, I fail to understand why you want a working e-mail to be able do d/l the slides. No pricavy policy, no word on what happens after you "signup"...

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Because I'm also sending a lot more info on things I had to cut from the talk for time (eg. samples of test code). I haven't finished or polished the stuff that I knew early I had to cut, so it's coming out as I can finish it.

Sorry it was unclear, I'll improve the text on that pgae.

Thanks for your feedback. I was really interested in the slides - but not on a newsletter subscription.

I think it would be nice to make that clear and allow people to make a choice. Otherwise most people will just use a spam address they never check.

You need an address to get the slides download link in his case.

Yep. I've also seen a few people using the same strategy I do of user+sitename.com@example.com so they can recognize when email addresses get abused and trivially filter them.

For what it's worth, I have cleaned up enough servers hacked by spammers that I'll never send one. I guess I should mention that.

That works until someone writes a script that removes any \+[^@]+ from specific email domains :)

I've never seen that (or any other purposeful filtering of address tags.) On the other hand, I can't count the number of sites that were just programmed with an address validation regex that is unaware of the existence of address tags, and therefore thinks your email address with a plus in it is invalid.

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