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by MayeulC 1189 days ago
Ah, I got a phone call yesterday because a small company I ordered something with didn't know where to send the package.

I gave them an e-mail address that contained a "+". Apparently MondialRelay silently dropped their requests. They thought they had sent me multiple e-mails. I received none.

I hate that kind of silent failure mode.

2 comments

Well that seems hostile on purpose. "You try holding us accountable for what we do with your email, punk? Shadowban for you!"
I'm so tired of these idiots. I've been slowly teaching various (non tech) co workers how to protect themselves and every time we get to email signups, I have to add a caveat about this only sometimes working, if the company has intelligent programmer.