In-reply-to » Darch comes from my last Mørch which means dark in Danish but it spell mørk when it is not a name. And since you can't use æøå I emails I just came up with sp_darch when I created my very first Hotmail back the late 90s. Pronounced: dark

@ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com Technically you could use more special characters in the local part, but good luck getting this mail through other mail servers. Even nowadays e-mail address validation is completely broken on lots of websites and rejects even simple characters like +. A mate is constantly complaining about that, when he tries to sign up somewhere and wants to use a dedictated address for it to automatically move it into a certain folder. So you better limit yourself to alphanumeric, dot, minus und undercore. :-(

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