On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:18 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
To name one, I tried to get automobile insurance with GEICO, a large
insurer in the USA. If I had access to my old virtual_alias_maps I
could find many more who rejected the "+".
AT&T, Coca Cola, nearly every bank or any site for a company that is
not primarily a tech/web company.
See, the problem is they hire monkey to do their sites, and all the
monkeys share the same crappy javascript to 'validate' email addresses.
I found that _ was the best alternative for address delimiters. Users
want .'s or -'s too often. Certainly dashes are needed when someone
wants 1) their last name AND 2) their last name contains a hyphen like
Jones-Smith. Periods (full stops) are fine, but some users like [email protected]
for their users.
So, I went with '_'
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Well I've seen the Heart of Darkness/Read the writing on the
wall/an the voice out in the desert/Was the voice out in the
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