Expedia developers don't know about RFC

1 points by anotheristaken ↗ HN
TL;DR: Apparently, Expedia can't handle «+» in email addresses.

Few month ago I used Expedia service to book hotel and used my email with «+expedia» tag, as I usually do, helps a lot with filtering. But with Expedia «+» breaks everything. It is few month already I can't unsubscribe from their spam. Two calls to support, «deactivation» of my account, but still I receive their ads. Funny thing is that «unsubscribe» link doesn't work. To unsubscribe I need to log into my account, which is deactivated. I could send all mail with «+expedia» to /dev/null, but seriously, WTF?

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What makes you think you'd have any different experience if your e-mail address did not contain "+" character?
My sincere belief that developers know what they're doing at least half of the time.