>I've been looking through RFC2822 (thanks Mary!) but have been unable to
>find anything that states that the * is not allowed in an email addres.
I'd say it states you *can*. Looking at it
from 3.2.4 "Atom"
atext = ALPHA / DIGIT / ; Any character except controls,
"!" / "#" / ; SP, and specials.
"$" / "%" / ; Used for atoms
"&" / "'" /
"*" / "+" /
"-" / "/" /
"=" / "?" /
"^" / "_" /
"`" / "{" /
"|" / "}" /
"~"
atom = [CFWS] 1*atext [CFWS]
dot-atom = [CFWS] dot-atom-text [CFWS]
dot-atom-text = 1*atext *("." 1*atext)
Then from 3.4.1. Addr-spec specification
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain
local-part = dot-atom / quoted-string / obs-local-part
Thus, a local-part is made up of a dot-atom. A dot-atom is made up of a
dot-atom-text, which is made up of one atext character followed by one or
more periods (.) and other atext letters.
Seeing as * exists in the lists of atext letters, you are within the RFC to
use it in an email address
>Does anyone know of anywhere I could find statement that use of an asterisk
>in email adresses is illegal?
It's not. If it's really a good idea, though, is another thing. You'd
probably find it got rejected from a lot of automated sign up forms.
-i
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