My dumb question ....

[optigoddess]

This puzzles me ... I feel "stupid" for asking ... BUT .... I wanna know ... so please bear with me ...


Sometimes, when I type in my email address to sign up on a website, I get a message that says my email address is "invalid". However, I know it is correctly entered.

At first, I thought it was because I was using my hotmail address and perhaps if I used my aol address (my "paid" address) I would get a different response. Well, using the aol address didn't make any difference !!!

Any ideas ???

not that the world will come to an end or anything ... but .... it's frustrating !!!


Thanks -


Karen

[rbaker]

Karen,

When you submit an email address it is sent as a text string. The text string is usually parsed to verify that the string is in the format of some characters followed by an @ followed by some more characters followed by a . followed by three characters. It also checks that there are no spaces in the string. Anything other than this format can bomb out.

If you are loging on to a site that you have previously joined the text string must exactly match the user name or email address that you originally logged on with.

At least that is what is supposed to happen.

[optigoddess]

RBAKER -



Thanks for your response.


I guess what has me stumped is that I type the email addy "correctly" with no spaces etc.... isn't technology great? :hammer:


Puzzled....


Karen