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by kazinator 1329 days ago
> If your email provider is free to "break" the spec, so are people you give your id to.

There is no reasoning behind this argument; it is purely a verbal construct memetically derived from some inapplicable equality ethic that might make sense in a completely unrelated situation.

The correct application of ethics is that someone agency who is given abc+def@gmail.com, and infers from it that this gives them permission to send email to abc@gmail.com (or, worse, sell that address to harvesters) is behaving unethically.