Email address failures
I wonder, do services like Hotmail have an address rewriting rule that rewrites www.somename@hotmail.com to somename@hotmail.com, given the number of people who don’t understand the difference between a URL and an email address?
Aug
2005
09:20
Guess they don’t:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
http://www.jamesoff@hotmail.com SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:: host mx4.hotmail.com [65.54.253.230]: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Sep
2005
15:19
Worse is that the sodding websites don’t even need www :P
Sep
2005
16:24
Actually Duds, http://www. should be required. It’s just that in the majority of cases they either rewrite to each other, or basically end up at the same place. On several of our servers xxxxxxx.com will not end up with the same server as http://www.xxxxxx.com