From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 18:19 on 29 Sep 2003 Subject: Software that thinks "_" is legal in DNS. While trying to retrieve the URL: http://phil_g.hates-software.com/2003/09/29/746dcaa6.html The following error was encountered: * Invalid URL Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect. Possible problems: * Missing or incorrect access protocol (should be `http://'' or similar) * Missing hostname * Illegal double-escape in the URL-Path * Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed Your cache administrator is webmaster@$VBC
From: David Champion Date: 18:47 on 29 Sep 2003 Subject: Re: Software that thinks "_" is legal in DNS. And then there's software that thinks "+" is NOT legal in e-mail.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 19:12 on 29 Sep 2003 Subject: Re: Software that thinks "_" is legal in DNS. > And then there's software that thinks "+" is NOT legal in e-mail. Oh, yeh, that's another good one. That's why I have qmail configured to use "-". And spamware that scrapes message IDs so I've got enormous quantities of crap coming to a pretty solid chunk of aaa@bunch-of-hosts through zzz@bunch-of-hosts. Of course I've been having "issues" with "space in last name" for most of my life, so none of this comes as a surprise.
From: Phil!Gregory Date: 20:03 on 29 Sep 2003 Subject: Re: Software that thinks "_" is legal in DNS. * David Champion <dgc+told_you_so@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2003-09-29 12:47 -0500]: > And then there's software that thinks "+" is NOT legal in e-mail. Indeed, software that thinks it can easily identify valid email addresses. I like to point would-be validators at the "Verifying Email Addresses" section at the bottom of http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/ Somewhat tangentially, while I generally hate websites who trust client-side input validation, I have on occasion abused such sites to force my preferred email address through. }:>
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