On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:

> Wrong. See RFC 2822. Almost anything is permitted in a local part if
> correctly quoted. 

Indeed.  This had become practically an FAQ in a Perl context, some 
years back, and Randal Schwartz had a stock answer for it, with a 
baroque but RFC-legal address as an example; but for some reason I 
don't seem to be able to find it again at the moment (perhaps some 
more-perceptive reader can help me out).

However, I'm finding that registrations which demand my email address 
are typically refusing to accept "+" as part of my address - so, even 
though *I* could use it, *they* won't.  Whether this is deliberate 
(they worked out that people using "+" are trying to track who they 
sell the address to), or they're just too badly educated to know 
what's legal, I can't say.

It's irritating, to say the least.


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