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If you use Gmail, you can easily work around this:

myname+394@gmail.com myname+blah@gmail.com myname+randomstr@gmail.com

all route to myname@gmail.com.

...which is easily defeated by a regex, no?

user.name@gmail.com is the same as us.er.na.me@gmail.com, too. Far less trivially defeated, as the period has meaning in many other e-mail systems.

Awesome tip.

I think a bunch of services have caught on the + and . tricks in gmail. I'm not sure but it seems like my attempts have been blocked. Can anyone confirm?

many sites, to my irritation, don't allow the + symbol in their email validation code.

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