"LISTSERV list owners' forum" <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 11/11/2004 04:18:01 PM: > I'm a great proponent of user education, but this is one battle that is > already lost, and we can't blame this one on Microsoft. I seem to recall > seeing email addresses published - by people who ought to know better - > without <> delimiters long before Bill Gates recognized the importance > of the Internet. I don't recall seeing anything in the RFCs that require the < and > as part of an email address. As far as I can recall, they define an address as the local part, the "at sign" and the domain. If I missed something in the RFCs, I'd appreciate someone pointing it out to me.