On Wednesday, September 12, 2001, Peter Palmreuther wrote:

> Well ... I actually don't think this as a good idea as the full stop is in
> domain names the seperator for the host/domain hierarchical ... so
> 'username.domain.tld' is in fact the correct 'name' for a host named
> 'username' in domain 'domain.tld'.

The "full-stop" (I usually say "period") is absolutely valid as a
separator in an email address designed for 'human consumption' as
opposed to an email client or server; see the SOA headers for any
domain, using DNS. The first full stop, by convention, replaces the
"@".

Jeff
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