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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Sep 2001.
Re: New to ASCII art? Read me first!

Re: New to ASCII art? Read me first!

--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
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> On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:58:20 GMT, Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL (Faux_Pseudo)
> provoked the following text:
> 
>>> This is a bit confusing.
>>> If I add an "e" to "idirct" it makes "idircte".
>>> Perhaps I should replace the "+" in "idirec+" with "t" to make "iderect" ?
>>
>>actualy the + has special meaning if it passes though a sendmail mail
>>client and is a bad choice
> 
> Just curious, what would happen if it did pass a sendmail client?

Well since you asked.
     If you pass something like foo...@notarealdomain.xyz sendmail
     will see foo@... but will pass it on as foo+bar@...  This way you can do
     something like foo+amazon_spam@... when asked for an email
     address by amazon and then see if amazon is selling your name to
     anyone else.  The problem is that non-sendmail clients might not
     see things that way and will see foo+bar and try to deliver to
     foo+bar and sence no admin would let someone use + in a user name
     the message would bounce back to whoever sent it.

     At least thats my understanding of things.  You may want to
     veriphy that with someone else.

     So when i say its a bad choice its not realy that sendmail might
     mind but some other clients might.

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From: Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL (Faux_Pseudo)
Subject: Re: New to ASCII art? Read me first!
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