Sweet trick. G > Just want to mention that one of my pet peeves is web sites that think > that email addresses with a "+" in the name aren't valid. They are > valid and rfc compliant. Technically you might want to allow them. For > example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid e-mail address. Just for > those that don't know how the plus sign is treated, according to the > SMTP RFC's, mail clients should accept e-mail addresses with a plus sign > in it, but for the purposes of delivery, everything after the plus sign > is ignored. This allows for some cool filtering and spam prevention. > For example, all my e-mail communication with comcast is done with > torriem+comcast. If I start getting spam that is being sent to > torriem+comcast, then I know who sold my address and then I can block > all mail with the "+comast" suffix.
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