[GTALUG] Old and New Habits...

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

There are email rules and GMail rules.

RFC 822 was the original spec for email as we know it.  I'm not going to 
look them up because I don't have time.

Case doesn't matter.  You can use what you want and anyone else can too.

GMail ignores ".".  You can scatter them willy-nilly in your name and get 
the same account.  This is not sanctioned by RFC 822 (for both senses of 
the word).

"Normal" mail systems have typically ignored everything after "+".  
Probably not GMail.  I sometime use that to put tags on email addresses I 
give out: I can tell who gave away my email address to a third party.

Unfortunately, many web sites refuse "+" within email addresses, clearly 
violating the RFCs.  I have inferred that this is a Microsoft innovation.