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Re: [LUG] Question about the list archiving ?

 

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:31:44AM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> I use the +label in email addresses - see this one, although a lot of 
> places reject them as invalid email addresses, even though they are 
> perfectly valid. There's a spotty microsoft kid out there who thought he 
> knew what a valid email address is to blame for this, I reckon...

Yeah, I’ve had the same problem — “only a-z, 0-9, . and _ are valid in
email addresses”. Rubbish. I ended up switching to using ‘-’ as the
separator, but even so I’ve had one or two sites tell me that it’s
invalid.

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