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Undertoad · 09-11-2006, 04:21 PM

Some of this behavior is just how email is defined to work in the original specs. For example, it was agreed upon 15-20 years ago that you can freely add a plus sign and any other text to your address. So if you have account@gmail.com, account+smith@gmail.com will send mail to you. Or account+walmart, account+bankname, etc so some people are recommending the plus sign to track what emails are for what.

I don't remember the definition for how dots are supposed to work.

Many people have corporate addresses of their first name dot their last name @ work.com. That's because when you work at a corporation, they don't want you to have a handle-ish name like "undertoad". It's considered unprofessional.

I write the above paragraph because we will laugh so heartily at it in 20 years.

09-11-2006, 04:21 PM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Some of this behavior is just how email is defined to work in the original specs. For example, it was agreed upon 15-20 years ago that you can freely add a plus sign and any other text to your address. So if you have account@gmail.com, account+smith@gmail.com will send mail to you. Or account+walmart, account+bankname, etc so some people are recommending the plus sign to track what emails are for what. I don't remember the definition for how dots are supposed to work. Many people have corporate addresses of their first name dot their last name @ work.com. That's because when you work at a corporation, they don't want you to have a handle-ish name like "undertoad". It's considered unprofessional. I write the above paragraph because we will laugh so heartily at it in 20 years.