alt Hacker NewsI assume spammers have become adept at stripping anything between + and @ in email addresses, so this isn't as reliable as properly masked addresses.
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bch • yesterday at 7:32 PM
The “[email protected]” format is also rejected by many validators, sadly. I thought this was a gmail feature, but was corrected[0][1] a while ago.
That's been my experience too. That's why prefix inboxes allow any suffix, including "-", "_", "$", "!" etc.