Joan Holth wrote: > Thanks for the info. Keeping up with one e-mail account is enough for > me. Just because some idiot programmer (yes, I was a programmer, > hopefully not an idiot one, once upon a time) thinks all e-mails are > alpha characters and numbers needs to be educated. > Is there somewhere I can contact Open Office about this? > > Joan > > Michael Adams wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:17:25 -0500 >> Came this utterance formulated by Joan & Allen Holth to my mailbox: >> >> >>> When I tried to register Open Office 3.1, it kindly informed me that >>> my e-mail address was invalid. Sorry, I have had this address for >>> years. Just because it has a hypen it it doesn't make it invalid. >>> >>> >> >> Been there too. Some agressive email pattern matching wont allow >> anyone from new zealand to register with a .maori.nz address. >> >> The best pattern matching to employ is a loose one where you look >> for an "@" and thats it. Then get anything that is spat out to go to >> a human for deciphering. Often the address mistakenly has a space, a >> comma instead of a period and can be recovered. >> >> The best solution for you is to open a Gmail account and use that.
Actually what you do is go to Sun. They hold all the info there for signups. I've had to do it twice. HTH, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
