Facebook

Posted by marco
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:49:00 GMT

Everybody seems to be on facebook nowadays. After a few friends added me on Facebook, I finally found some time to register. For these kind of sites I use a special crafted email address, i.e. something like marco+sitename@mydomain, and I registered successfully, for example, on Spock and Linkedin.

Big surprise: Facebook returned me an error, saying that my email is not valid.

That’s a serious error, for a big site like Facebook. Quoting RFC 3696:

[…] Forms such as

user+mailbox@example.com

customer/department=shipping@example.com

$A12345@example.com

!def!xyz%abc@example.com

_somename@example.com

are valid and are seen fairly regularly […]