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Re: [Asrg] http://donotcall.gov/

2003-07-01 10:47:49
At 02:49 AM 6/27/2003 -0400, Kee Hinckley wrote:

You would think, given all the time and money that went into this, that they could have gotten something as simple as an email address right.

They are mis-parsing email addresses. A + turns into a space on the next form (they didn't escape it), and the email address will be incorrectly stored. Other perfectly legal characters (%, &) are being rejected. Clearly nobody bothered to read an RFC (not that I can figure out why they would care if you enter "illegal" characters. Either the email gets delivered or it doesn't. Not their problem.

I had a similar problem - I use disposable addressed at a domain, and the address I entered - donotcall(_dot_)gov(_at_)domain(_dot_)com did not go through.

Yakov

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