Re: "." before the "@"

From: Bill Warner (lww@ictech.net)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 18:10:12 EDT


At 05:38 PM 6/15/00 -0400, Swerve wrote:
>haven't been following this thread,
>does this mean that my email address can be
>
> .@icannolaBust.org

No. That is not a valid e-mail address. There has to be something before
and after the "." character. Exactly what that something can be is given
by the definition of "word" in the RFC 822 grammar. See
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822.txt for details.

--Bill



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