| I think you missed his point. As a business, if you tell a customer
| they can't complete this transaction because their ISP gave them a
| non-standard email address, the customer will blame you, not the ISP,
| regardless of how "right" you are about the standard. They will see
| that their email has worked fine up until now, and that the problem
| must be on your end.
|
| Standards are nice, but in this case, it doesn't pay to be rigid about
| them. In this case, by accepting the email, we are not destroying
| interoperability, we are merely being forgiving about the mistakes of
| others. (to the benefit of our customers, as well)
Maybe, but realistically, how often do you come across this? This is the
first time in 8 years that I have seen an E-mail address with a . right
before the @ .. and I would certainly remember if I had, because it looks
strange to me. In my mind, the purpose of the . is to separate things:
'bob.com', or 'firstname.lastname', etc. Why anyone would want/need one
right before the @ beats me. If I had seen this in the past, I certainly
would have wondered about it.
My guess is that this is rather rare .. except maybe at the ISP/company in
question who's E-mail address started this thread.
./Todd
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