RFC5322 allows the usage of +
in e-mails.
All mail that is sent to [email protected], [email protected] ends up in [email protected] mailbox. This helps managing your inbox, is extremely useful if you want to detect a service that sells user e-mails to spammers and just keeps yourself more secure.
Some services don’t support this practice, though.
Here's a list of webservices that has no idea how to validate an email address properly or just prohibits this feature for whatever reasons.
Hall of shame if you will.