Curious Firefox error 337

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:33:04 +0000, Robert Hull

snip of childish bickering by both sides

Then you address must be a valid one? If an email is sent to legitimate, and I'm perfctly willing to take your word about it, then my mistake and I again apologize. But it certainly LOOKS like a typical incorrect munge and I would be very suprised - even amazed - if any message sent to it actually went through. From the looks of it, offhand I'd say it would pbutt syntax but fail a SMTP check, but admittidly I'm guessing. Not worth the time to actually test it, I'll take your word. But if NOT a valid address, well, one can Google any number of entries about this. The one below, picked for no particular reason, is from the 'Email-Munging' section on netmeister.org:

"...one should not simply use an invalid email-address, since this way it either puts more load on your system or on the originating mailserver. In general it is considered polite to use only the suffix ``.invalid'' for your email-address, so as to make it clear that your address is in fact not a genuine one."

This is useful not only for politeness, but for filtering, at least for some uers.

Started in sometime in '85 with a '286, 1200 baud US Robotics external modem and a Compuserve account. Wasn't many ISPs to choose from then. You should be able to tell from my headers that while I may be no guru I have at least some idea what I'm doing.

It's only if it's truly a valid email address. Otherwise, your address is 'Netiquette-challenged.

This whole thread is what's gotten ridiculous. I'm done apologizing for my crime. I've done my punishment. I'm granting myself parole, contigent on never, EVER again even thinking "hmmm...maybe I shoulda posted that in a different group?" Not worth raising the wrath of the 'Net Nazis.

-- Registered Linux user #266531