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FB's email policy is equally braindead. My email address used to be mail@sriramkrishnan.com - they disallow names like 'mail', 'admin', etc. So I had to come up with a new alias just for FB.

But I keep getting hit by this in odd ways. Like with the FB+Heroku integration - I couldn't get FB to accept that my Heroku login was valid because it was failing the 'Is this a suspicious alias' test.

If someone from FB is watching, you would save me a great deal of annoyance if you help me get around this.



I'll +1 this, I have the same exact issue.

This is the single most annoying thing about signing up for services. If they disallow this or the +flag chances are I won't sign up for a service.




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