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I agree with everything here except the email addresses example. Yes I do want to register igor@example.com and igor+work@example.com. Those are different accounts, please don’t mess with that.


There may be very good reasons for a site operator to disallow this. I mentioned some of them elsewhere in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16358625


I also employ the dot scheme for different purposes. Example: johndoe.hn@gmail.com vs johndoe.school@gmail.com so I wouldn’t want anyone aliases without the dot.


For things that are legitimately tied to your physical identity as opposed to an email address it makes sense not to let you do this.




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