Well, I don't think I've seen an address with a "&" in it either, but I have seen and used and address with an % (to get email to a chap in Antarctica!) in the Old Days.
More to the point, these are both legit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address Having said that, it's probably Asking For Trouble. The mere fact that there's any controvrsy pretty much guarantees that somewhere there is an email client, server or gateqay that doesn't support this - and someone on that system may want to correspond with you by email - but won't be able to. - steve -----Original Message----- From: Paul Swafford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 13 March 2006 10:33 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Straw poll a&[EMAIL PROTECTED] put it this way I've never seen one .. and I've been emailing since a long time before the "net" .. so yeah "yes" for some local email services .. but no for external email services. I've checked with some "guru" types on this and the answer is categorically NO valid = a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -_ thats it regards Paul Craig FALCONER wrote: > I'm having some ongoing discussions with two ISPs, our mail server, > and a couple of users over an email address. > > Is the ampersand a valid character in an email address? > > It looks like the answer is YES for the local part and NO for the > domain name. > > What do you think? > ========================================================= This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by CommArc Cube Server
