Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that

But you can’t use emails starting with mail@, admin@, support@, info@, main@, etc.

Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

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    6 months ago

    I imagine because it can’t be used to add additional junk characters to the address, they probably just strip them out before doing their string comparison

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      6 months ago

      If they know this case. In other email services dots are usually not a junk characters.

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        6 months ago

        For the same of checking uniqueness it’s probably fine to just ignore them. Yeah, it sucks if johndoe@obscure.domain and john.doe@obscure.domain can’t sign the same petition but outside of the big email services I imagine that kind of collision is pretty rare