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Article #535Re: Are underbars considered bad form for addresses in RFC822 headers?
From: Craig F. Everhart
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 1988 15:10
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 1988 15:10
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RFC822 treats ``_'', and several other several punctuation characters, in
exactly the same way as it treats, say, alphabetics. These include:
!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~
As to whether a particular mail system will recognize mail addressed to
Firstname_Lastname (or, for that matter, ``Firstname.Lastname''), that's up to
the particular mail system. Andrew.cmu.edu, for instance, will get mail to me
no matter whether it's addressed as any of the following:
Craig.Everhart@andrew.cmu.edu
Craig_Everhart@andrew.cmu.edu
Craig_F._Everhart@andrew.cmu.edu
cfe+@andrew.cmu.edu
plus a bunch of less-reliable alternatives that presume the absence of
conflicting names, e.g.:
cfe@andrew.cmu.edu
Creg.Everhart@andrew.cmu.edu
c.f.everhart@andrew.cmu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!cfe+ From: cfe+@andrew.cmu.edu (Craig F. Everhart) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Are underbars considered bad form for addresses in RFC822 headers? Message-ID: <EWJuRHy00VsL00fHEK@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 4 Apr 88 15:10:11 GMT References: <4289@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: <4289@hoptoad.uucp>