That is also right.
BTW, I will become an ISP and I will give out email-addresses with % instead
of @. I will do this next week. Everyone, please upgrade your emailer
softwares by then! Thank you for your concern.
- Csongor
>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)
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