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Mars Buttfield-Addison 🛰Sep 23, 2024

The other day I couldn’t buy an article from an academic publisher because my surname has a hyphen.

Today I can’t get into Dropbox because it has decided my email address—which I have had an account under for nearly a decade—is invalid.

I swear we have gotten worse at this stuff lately…? #UIFails

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Jon

@TheMartianLife yes we have. Try running your own mail server these days (and getting major servers to accept mail sent from it), or running OSS tools like fetchmail which expect to operate under standard protocols that e.g. Google and Microsoft no longer support.