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by petercooper 1737 days ago
Related thing from the past.. Gmail once had a bug(?) where if you sent any email containing a URL with the domain starting "0x", it would go straight to spam. I imagine it was a rule hard coded to block the use of hexadecimal long IP URLs, but it also picked regular domains starting 0x. It was fixed a few years ago.
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ArchOversight 1737 days ago
I own a domain starting with 0x and I spent a lot of time talking to people I knew at Google to get that one fixed because my mail would not be delivered.
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petercooper 1736 days ago
I'm glad to hear another first hand report of this as info was very thin on the ground at the time!
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