era eriksson writes on 26 August 1997 at 12:08:40
[...]
use something like "me@" <me(_at_)my(_dot_)address(_dot_)net> (@comment) just
to see if
they can break things but they probably shouldn't count on their mail
getting through all of the time then :-)
If you really want to follow the rules, RFC822 will prove to be good
reading. A lot of odd characters are allowed if you just quote them or
Note that the draft son-of-RFC822 (http://www.ietf.org) is explicitly
disallowing many of these rather arcane formats. For example,
"J. Daniel Smith" <DanS(_at_)bristol(_dot_)com>
is the sanctioned email address format in this draft instead of
"overloading" the comment as in
DanS(_at_)bristol(_dot_)com (J. Daniel Smith)
Dan
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