This post originated from an RSS feed registered with .NET Buzz by Peter van Ooijen. Original Post: A . in the first part of an email address Feed Title: Peter's Gekko Feed URL: /error.htm?aspxerrorpath=/blogs/peter.van.ooijen/rss.aspx Feed Description: My weblog cotains tips tricks and opinions on ASP.NET, tablet PC's and tech in general. Latest .NET Buzz Posts Latest .NET Buzz Posts by Peter van Ooijen Latest Posts From Peter's Gekko

An email address does contain at least one dot; Take Pete@Gekko-Software.nl Some organizations, like mine, also use dots in the first parts; like Pete.van.Ooijen@Gekko-Software.nl Imho this makes sense, the dots separate the parts of my full name. But a lot of sites, including FI parts of MSDN, do not accept such an address; it's considered ill-formatted. Not very user-friendly, especially when the messages returned are pretty vague.