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		ooterness on Dec 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifie... Sadly, there's a lot of companies with misguided email validation. They often insist "+" cannot be used in an email address.

chii on Jan 1, 2024 [–]

luckily, for cases like these, you can add a dot anywhere within the email address before the @ symbol for gmail, and it goes to the same email address as without the dot.

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