At 08:04 AM 4/2/97 -0500, Pete Weiss wrote: >>I don't know much but I've seen "#" in "european" addresses and some >>".com" like they were put there by the routers or something ... not it >>sub addresses as is that I recall but since I think LISTSERV parses the >>Sender or X-Sender field I think it is a "possible" valid one ... >> >>Why do "#" make suspicious ? Is it normally reserved for a specifc >>usage? > >Often times in VM/CMS, the pound sign is used a command-line separator >i.e., you can "stack" multiple commands on one physical input line. > >If you think of the pound sign as a place holder similar to the use of the >asterisk e.g., "you are being made out to be an a**," I think you'll catch >my drift. Of course you then might a**ume that I have a filthy MIME. ;-) I checked RFC 822, since I wasn't sure. "#" is not any kind of special character, and is thus perfectly valid in an email address (if anyone wants to create them that way). Frankly, I wouldn't have guessed that. The problem with putting them on review is that maybe they'll just lurk for a year, and then finally make a post--which will occur on the first day of your 3-week vacation. Then they'll wonder where it went. :-) (Not criticizing your decision BTW, just noticing that it looks like an activator for Murphy's Law.) Cheers, Stan