Yes it's legal but no you shouldn't do it because it can brake non compliant applications.
Cheers Don On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:40 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: > A while back there was a discussion about acceptable characters in an email > address but I cannot remember the definitive answer. > > I have a friend with and address beginning with > rus&[EMAIL PROTECTED] > which used to work but now my ISP (Orcon) is bouncing it back with.. > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <rus> > (reason: User unknown) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 5.1.1 <rus>... User unknown > > and.... > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Action: failed > Status: 5.1.1 > Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 67 > Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:30:24 +1200 > > Should I suggest that my friends change their address? >
