Messages On Startup

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET
Mon Sep 6 03:42:45 UTC 2004


p> I don't see why underscores should be used AT ALL, there have been
p> at various times problems, it _is_ against RFC.

No, it isn't.  Read RFC 2181 section 11 again.  Underscores are illegal 
in _host_ names, and in the domain portions of SMTP mailbox names; but 
they are perfectly acceptable in domain names.  A flat ban on 
underscores in domain names is not in conformance with the standards.


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