Hi Bill,
i just tested .@swerve.com
and it worked.
when you say its not valid, does that mean it may work on some systems and
not on others?
imo, it's time to revamp alot of these rules.
including being able to use characters that are universally available on
keyboards, and again, also getting rid of the exclusive dot.syntax.
it's so tech., so engineerEsque, so limiting.
i would love to see myself or someone work the domain name
free
no www's no .'s.
exhale,
josh m.
> From: Bill Warner <lww@ictech.net>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:10:12 -0500
> To: Swerve <shwa@swerve.com>
> Cc: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
> Subject: Re: "." before the "@"
>
> 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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