Re: [Asrg] http://donotcall.gov/

[Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com>]

At 02:49 AM 6/27/2003 -0400, Kee Hinckley wrote:

> You would think, given all the time and money that went into this, that 
> they could have gotten something as simple as an email address right.
>
> They are mis-parsing email addresses.  A + turns into a space on the next 
> form (they didn't escape it), and the email address will be incorrectly 
> stored.  Other perfectly legal characters (%, &) are being 
> rejected.  Clearly nobody bothered to read an RFC (not that I can figure 
> out why they would care if you enter "illegal" characters. Either the 
> email gets delivered or it doesn't.  Not their problem.
I had a similar problem - I use disposable addressed at a domain, and the 
address I entered - donotcall.gov@domain.com did not go through.

Yakov 

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