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Subject: Re: - as first character of address
From: "Mats Dufberg" <Mats . Dufberg @ abc . se>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 97 00:00:18 +0200
To: "Rich Pieri" <rich . pieri @ prescienttech . com>
Cc: "Majordomo Users" <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . com>
Reply-to: "Mats Dufberg" <Mats . Dufberg @ abc . se>

On 08 Oct 1997 10:12:44 -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:

>JW> So, a valid email address consists of one or more characters in
>JW> the range of 33-126 decimal, exluding the special characters of
>JW> ()<>@;:\".[]
>
>There is an additional specifier somewhere that an addr-spec must start
>with an alpha or numeric character.  I think....


No, not as far as I can see. The "-" is not given any special
treatment in RFC822. The local part of the address my consists
of any character from (and including) 0 to (and including) 
decimal 127. Some characters have to be quoted (by \) or in
quotemarks.







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