> I would suggest not letting your users use usernames with hyphens at ALL.

Didn't think of that.  That would definitely be better.  I kept trying to
filter out the words "Draft" and "Sent".  Duh.

>... but just because you can play in the street, doesn't mean you should.

My MIDDLE name is Dangerous... Austin "Dangerous" Powers.

> If you've got existing users that have hyphens

None that I know of... and they will change if Austin "Dangerous" Powers
says so.

> I also took a look at RFC822.  I'm not very good at RFC-speak, but if I'm
> reading it right, the only punctuation that should appear in the user
> portion of the address is a period.  Scott or Len might want to bump in
> here...

I'm not very good at reading RFCs either, but in RFC822, Section 6.2.5.
BALANCING LOCAL-PART AND DOMAIN, they mention some suggestions, I guess,
on how to specify sub-domains:

mailbox.sub1.sub2@this-domain or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I haven't found any reference to subdividing the mailbox itself, so I guess
subdividing an account by hypens isn't so bad.  On the other hand, it seems
that following the spirit of the current RFC would suggest a period "."
delimiter. On the third hand, that would end up disabling the Save Draft
function.

So, I guess as long as everyone knows to not allow their users to create
usernames with hyphens, the world will not end.

> Hope this helps,
> Tony

Most definitely.  Thanks!

-Norm


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