I've seen one with an ampersand, provided some years back by xtra. Made it a pain to put into forms.
On 13/03/06, Ross Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:50, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > >> 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? > > My parents email address has an ampersand in it. I set it up for them and was > assured by the ISP that having an ampersand in the email address was OK. > > They have never had their email address rejected by a pop server because it > had an ampersand in the from address. > > Where they have struck problems is on e-commerce sites where they were > required to enter an email address to receive confirmation details. Airline > on line ticket booking sites are a particular offender here. > > Cheers Ross Drummond >
