Re: Newbie: Help with munging please

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Buenas tardes: *Robert Aldwinckle* escribió:
"Roland Bierlein" <robier@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Frankly, I am not happy with your advice here. When using a munged
address, one has to pay special attention to not accidently use an
address, which *could* possibly belong to someone else!

For another example of what I think must be flawed advice see

http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx

"Use a modified E-mail address"

which apparently suggests (only) putting "munging" in parentheses...

Yes, the advice they put on the webinterface definitely is flawed. We
complained quite loudly about it to our German MVP lead, when the new
site was launched. The website above is not simply translated but truly
regional, so the advice on the German site is to insert "_nospam" in
the address, quite what Ted suggested and I commented already. Of course,
they nobody paid our complaints further attention ...

Ah, what gives, I just mailed my lead once again about it - regarding
the German site.

After finding out about "comments" I suspect the examples
are in fact valid and wouldn't have any preventive value at all: ; o

<ref>
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html

<quote>
A.5. White space, comments, and other oddities
</quote>
</ref>

Quite funny. So I take it, this means comments in parentheses are to be
ignored when sending the message? (English is usually OK for me, but
this kind of "legal" speach I hardly can comprehend.) Would make the
advice given completely worthless indeed. <g>

Saludos
Roland
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