Thus said Gilles Chehade on Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:48:57 +0100: > > I don't see this as necessarily an argument for or against - vs + > > > > too bad, it means my friend jean-pierre will not be able to be hosted > by you if you already host my other friend jean ;-)
This is true, obviously. If one user has jean and jean-* then clearly jean-pierre@ is already taken. That doesn't mean I cannt host your friend jean-pierre, it just means he cannot have jean-pierre@, maybe he will settle for jean_pierre@ or jean+pierre@, or any other combination that suits him and allowed by the hosting software/MTA. Given the predominence of @gmail.com email addresses, clearly this is not a problem for the majority of people in the email world. There can only ever be one jean-pie...@gmail.com, right? Which means if your friend jean-pierre has jean-pie...@gmail.com, then necessarily my friend jean-pierre cannot also have jean-pie...@gmail.com. Bummer. Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 4000000056d916f3
