On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 05:44:37PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The reason behind requiring a single email of the form > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was multifold; one was the database; but the > other, and in my opinion, more important reason was so thet there is > an easy address format for people to send mail to maintainers. > > I know I can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when the .de > address bounces (as it is for me at the moment), and that it shall > work. > > It would make things easier for the users.
Hi. Here's a suggestion: make everyone have a single email [EMAIL PROTECTED] but let them use any [EMAIL PROTECTED] they want. That is, compare things after the "@" to end of string and from beginning to first "/-+". That way one can use user-packages/[EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. And the DB would have to store only [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a valid address w/o spam | +358-50-5124907 f u cn rd ths, thn u cn rd perl 2 | rm -rf / && echo bye-bye. | --tv