X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ed3d367692df35f5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-06 03:26:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL (Faux_Pseudo) Subject: Re: New to ASCII art? Read me first! References: <3b94acef$0$254$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <8tu9pt04sei3c1e00plhubmnmfvq30bkjs@4ax.com> <3b95d973$1@runswick.octacon.co.uk> <1ercptsuecaos1debashn8i3e2bjolbgo3@4ax.com> Reply-To: Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Lines: 35 Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 10:26:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.177.56.253 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com 999771961 24.177.56.253 (Thu, 06 Sep 2001 03:26:01 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 03:26:01 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7333 --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(Peter Punk said it like only they can.)-- > On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:58:20 GMT, Faux_Pseudo@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+bar@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. -- --(tty1@faux.local|04:45|/home/faux)-- cat .sig GUI's are for slackers. Get ibpconf.sh 6.1 on freshmeat.net It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson