Justin S. wrote:
> I think overall that those types of e-mail addresses should be allowed. It
> doesn't matter if it doesn't go with RFC822 or whatever, because some
people
> are different. It comes down to: do you want the business, or do you want
to
> bitch and moan at the client for having a '.' before the '@'? I'd rather
> have the business any day!
This may be true, but it is not the point. When people write e-mail
software, they use the RFC's to identify what is acceptable and what is not.
Whether you or anyone else disagrees with the RFC is not relevant because
the point of a standard is so heterogeneous, cross-vendor systems can
interoperate for the benefit of the user. Ignore the standard, destroy
interoperability and the user suffers. One of the great things about RFC822
e-mail is that is works everywhere, on the oldest and the latest systems.
If you don't like the standard, that's fine, propose a new one and get it
approved as a RFC so we can all use it.
-- Grant
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Tue Oct 19 2004 - 23:35:38 EDT