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From: CALIFFM@BAYLOR.BITNET (Michael Califf)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Is underscore legal in the local-part of an address?
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Date: 23 Jul 90 15:38:00 GMT
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Sorry about posting here, feel free to aim me at a better list...

At least one of the INTERBIT (Internet-to-BITNET) gateways is
rejecting addresses which contain an underscore.  The postmaster
at the gateway says that this is because his software correctly
implements RFC821 which restricts addresses to letters, numbers,
and hyphens.

I have checked the RFC and it seems to be a little less
restrictive than that.  Have I missed something?

Thanks for any help/pointers,

Mike Califf                    (POSTMAST[ER])
Communications Software Coord  Internet: califfm@baylor.edu
Baylor University C.C.I.S.     Bitnet:   CALIFFM@BAYLOR