Are apostrophes valid in an email address?

Wed Feb 15 16:00:29 GMT 2006

On 15 Feb 2006, at 15:09, Phil Pennock wrote:

> On 2006-02-15 at 09:49 -0500, IvorW wrote:
>> paddy.o'hagan at foobar.org
>
>> Who's right?
>
> The apostrophe is fine.

FWIW, the real (poorly-written) world appears to be nowhere near RFC- 
compliance, especially on anything web-related. I gave up using the  
apostrophe in my email address some years back as it just wasn't  
worth the effort attempting to communicate with clueless nitwits. One  
semi-unexpected benefit is that I check for certain classes of SQL  
injection attacks pretty much out of habit...  ;-)

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