Numeric domain names in user email addresses - bug

[Thomas von der Elbe]

Ok, if an email-adress like thx at 1138.com is somehow wrong lets disallow 
it. I didnt quite understand the text you linked to. Why do wrong 
emailadresses exist at all?




Michael Allan schrieb:
> I don't think we should allow it.  Instead, we should fix the bug by
> disallowing these:
>
>   
>>  a) Create an account for thx at 1138.com in the pollwiki
>>  b) Vote for thx at 1138.com by email address in the pollserver
>>     
>
> Mail hosts aren't supposed to use domain labels with leading digits
> (like "1138"): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035#section-2.3.1
> We depend on that restriction for the username encoding scheme.
> Allowing an exception would be difficult, and would complicate future
> changes to the scheme (e.g. to support unicode domain names).
>
> I'll leave it open for a while, though, in case anyone wants to
> discuss it.
>