I really need to go to bed, but I thought I would rant for a quick bit.
If you design a web page that asks for an e-mail address is some manner, you really better $%@& well known the accepted standards for e-mail or rather the "internet message format".
I get so pissed off when a web form won't allow me to enter a plus sign in my e-mail address. This is a valid and useful option. You see, everything after the + to the @ sign is presented but ignored for delivery. So, bill@vinsonweb.com and bill+spammingbastards@vinsonweb.com go to the same address, but I can at least see the address it was sent to. Now, when I give my e-mail address to any old company, I can see if I start getting spam on that e-mail account, I know who to blame.
There is no incentive for companies to fix this as it is used by a small group of people. Well, no reason except for the page designer sleeping soundly with the knowledge that he did his work right and isn't completely inept.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
The "plus" sign is a valid e-mail address character
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Wow, I didn't know that. That's a useful fact. Thanks!
That's one of my pet peeves. Almost no one accepts plus signs in e-mail addresses. I used to use qmail, though, and it uses the dash "-" as the delimiter, so I used that for a while until I moved to Google Hosted email. Unfortunately, I just found one place that doesn't allow dashes in their e-mail addresses either! Gah!
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