Does your website have a form where people need to/can enter an e-mail address? Are you a web developer that builds e-mail forms?

Then I have a simple request for you. Allow people to enter a ‘+’ (the plus symbol) as part of their e-mail address. Why? Because this is an extremely useful (if not well-known) feature of Gmail, plus other e-mail systems.

Yes, I understand that you’re attemptting to filter out spammy/hackerish or poorly inputted addresses, and I commend you, but this is a legitimate symbol.

Remember my post about e-mail minimization and sanity? The plus symbol is one such tool in the arsenal to auto-filter and label/tag. Help us help ourselves!