Re: lists that have a `+' in them

[Jonathan Morace <jmorace @ u . washington . edu>]

I am not sure about the official standards, but I do know that "+" has a
special meaning in email addresses, particulary in directing mail to 
incoming folders.  For example, if I subscribed to this list with
jmorace+mj@u.washington.edu, it would be sent to me, and put into an
incoming folder named "mj".

Hope that helps,

Jonathan

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Brendan Kehoe wrote:

>Has anyone looked into the problem of majordomo not dealing well with a list
>that has a `+' character in their name?  For instance, `foo++@blah.com' should 
>be acceptable, yet majordomo doesn't see it as a valid list.  My guess is that 
>somewhere in majordomo it just needs to do some quoting of the `+'s before it
>actually feeds it tries to match it against anything.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>B
>
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