Posted by Andy Dingley on 11/13/06 11:03

Tina Peters wrote:
> PS: ALL email addresses have an @ in them.

All RFC-822-based internet email addresses have a "@" in them. This
isn't all "email" though.

There are plenty of in-company email systems around that don't need or
use "@". You can even represent an internet email address (with a "@")
using an old format like X400 and represent it correctly without using
a "@" character. So the email address you need will almost certainly
have a "@" in it, but it's still possible (especially dealing with
European politicians, IMHE) that they can equally well have a business
card that doesn't show you this "@" character.

If you deal with inexperienced people who have only ever used AOL or
MSN (especially AOL) then they can be genuinely unaware of the
difference between the "internet" and AOL. They think their email
address is "fred123" when actually it's "fred123@aol.com"

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