At 04:22 PM 4/12/2002, Christian F Buser wrote: >Hello Stefan Jeglinski. At 12:06 -0400 12.04.2002, you wrote: > > >>This is not a SIMS question per se, but we have e-mail gurus here, >>and so with nothing else to do on a Friday I humbly blather before >>you :-) >> >>There is a person with a sympatico acct whose e-mail name is 'mary.' >>(read "mary" "dot").
I checked with a friend whom I consider an e-mail wonk and he replied thusly: >It's perfectly legal (pretty much any character may be in the local part >of an email address, as long as it's escaped properly if needed). > >But.... it's asking for trouble. It will upset some software. Because >that software is broken, admittedly, but it takes a certain level of >perversity to go around making your life harder by tickling bugs in >software. >-------------- Michael Croft "Babeheart? What's it about?" mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] it's about a cute little pig that http://www.whiterose.org/michael slaughters the English" -- Freakazoid >-------------- ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
