On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:33:31 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >... there is currently no other Tony in the email list at >this domain, so Tony is enough to reach me. That will surely change >one day, but what will the algorithm be? Reject, ignore, stick to the >existing rule and send to me...? > Closely related to the curse of autocompletion.
>But any RFC-compliant mail *sender* must permit the + character in the >local-part. This is a pet peeve. Many web sites have a similer piece >of bogus Javascript that rejects all kinds of perfectly valid >addresses. I like to use the + convention, but I'd say around 60% of >sites I deal with reject it. The worst silently ignore the +, or >replace it with a blank, and let the next downstream component fail on >it, also perhaps silently. I have had helpdesks tell me I must change >my email address in order to deal with their company. Would they do >the same if their phone system had a bug such that my area code wasn't >accepted?* > Grrr. Repeal and Replace Postel's Law. >* "...switch programming error in Toronto". ... > Had one last week. My phone provider is CenturyLink. My caller ID was appearing, only to Comcast subscribers, as "Boulder Community Hospital". Unnerving to see late at night. Called Comcast support, since problem appeared peculiar to Comcast. "Vince" was adamant that problem was with CenturyLink "outbound caller ID", and I needed to call CenturyLink. Wouldn't even give me an SR number since I don't have a Comcast account. "Michelle" at CenturyLink was more helpful. She agreed to contact Comcast, giving me an SR number that looked just like a 1-800... phone nunber and put me on hold. After a few minutes of background music, Comcast picked up. Oops! But after I navigated the voice menu, "Shea" was more helpful. With more holds, he came back snd reported a "switch programming error" and submitted a request to fix it, saying that should have been CenturyLink's job, and that "Vince" should have been able to give me the same assistance. Fixed in 12 hours. Gasp! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
