On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Marc Haber wrote: > >> Some signup forms don't let you use + in the localpart. > >> > >> For those, I do: > >> > >> # cd $USERPREFS/$DOMAIN > >> # ln -s existinglocalpart newlocalpart > > > >Then another separator would be in order, I suppose. > > If so, don't use ---. A number of brainded web applications won't > allow that, either. Dumbness of web developers does not seem to have > limits.
And indeed, it seems most non-alphanums have problems somewhere or other ... I came to the conclusion that '-' or '_' were the only real sane choices for the most part - I dislike the latter in email addresses, and the former is already extensively used so isn't very 'distinct' and parsing needs to be clever (when is a suffix not a suffix?). Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
