Quoting Wienand Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >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. > > 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. >
Also be interesting to see if third part programs would react to it.. an example that springs to mind would be a webmail interface allowing the user with the * in his/her username for mail. I am guessing it might not like it. Cheers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
