[K3PZN-List] re: email addressing and the like...

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:56:50 -0500

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> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:58:19 GMT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [K3PZN-List] Change of e-mail address - 2nd notice (in case you mi
> 	ssed it the first time)
> From: [email protected]

> 
> Technically any and all characters are legal in an e-mail
> address, which makes excluding things very difficult on the
> server-side programming end of things.
> 
> This is probably why we get all sorts of SPAM from
> #@%$DCDYU$%^[email protected] and the like.
> 
> 73 de ke3fl
> Phil K

True. This thing about hyphens has no effect on SPAM I'm afraid. 
Collectors are tokenizing the AT sign and the dot-atoms. Refer to 
RFC2822 for legal characters.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html
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Kevin P. Inscoe                       Amateur Radio Call Sign: KE3VIN
Deltona, FL 32738                         Position: 28.9002N 81.2419W
kevin [at] inscoe [dot] org                http://kevininscoe.com/sig
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