[37481] in Hotline Meeting
Re: email address with "%" character
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hoffmann@MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 19 12:11:57 1997
From: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:11:51 -0500
To: mjbelson@MIT.EDU
Cc: postmaster@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [16315] <9703191627.AA06431@hector.MIT.EDU> (carlton@MIT.EDU)
The "%" character is not the legal delimiter for Internet electronic
mail addresses. Some mail systems may accept this syntax and do the
right thing but as it is not "to spec" there is no reason to expect
any mailer to handle this the way you intended.
The delimiter is not aesthetic (like so many variations seen in
separating the parts of phone numbers). An electronic mail
infrastructure on the scale of the Internet depend on systems
cooperating and using a common systax or protocol in order to
function. This includes correct representations of an email address.
There is no workaround for this.
-Ron Hoffmann
<postmaster@mit.edu>
