User mail boxes should be aliased to accept either hyphens or underscores.

[galbinus_caeli]

Title
User mail boxes should be aliased to accept either hyphens or underscores in user names.

Short, concise description of the idea
The livejournal email system should accept email addressed to a member with hyphens in place of the underscores in their user name.

Full description of the ideaThe feature that allows livejournal members to receive

Comments

[q_rai]

yes please!
My actual nickname which I'm using everywhere is Q-Rai not Q_Rai! So people would definitely get that wrong!

[galbinus_caeli]

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[q_rai]

sure :) made it my number 1 suggestion :D

[galbinus_caeli]

Thank you!

[rebelsheart]

having been wild_rhythm and vt_komainu, I can understand why this would be good :)

[galbinus_caeli]

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[trempnvt]

Yes, definitely.

[mackenzie]

For sure.

[polyfrog]

Pretty sure "_" is not a valid character for RFC-compliant mail.

[galbinus_caeli]

Thanks for the comment, but I checked first.

According to RFC 2822, the local-part of the address may use any of these ASCII characters:

* Uppercase and lowercase letters
* The digits 0 through 9
* The characters ! # $ % * / ? | ^ { } ` ~ & ' + - = _
* The character . provided that it is not the first nor last character in the local-part, nor may it appear two or more times consecutively.

[cos]

Those are the characters that are safe to include unquoted. Almost all other characters (except control characters, NULL, and DEL) can be included in email addresses if you quote them properly. Even consecutive dots :)

You could even have an email address of .....@foo.com, you should wouldn't be able to pass that in raw form to an email program or SMTP; you'd have to do it as: "....."@foo.com. Of course this can get weirder once you put double quotes, spaces, and so on in the address and have to quote those too. And since RFC2821 (SMTP) and RFC2822 (message format) have subtly different quoting rules, most people understandably try to avoid using email addresses that *require* quoting.

But you may use those other characters in the local part. You just don't want to. The list you've provided above is the list of characters sane people should try to limit their email addresses to :)

[galbinus_caeli]

Well, inclusion of those non standard characters is going to kind of depend on you MUA. If your MUA handles it, you can use pretty much anything that can be expressed with a byte code.

But all this is outside of the realm of my suggestion. Which is simply that if live journal is going to treat two symbols interchangeably in one place, it should accept those two interchangeably everywhere.