valid email-adr syntax ?

Many of us have to use fake 'From:' fields in NewsPosts
to avoid spammers.
I've been using no-(E-Mail Removed)

But google doesn't find 'all posts
between startDate & endDate by no-(E-Mail Removed)',
although it does if I use another 'From:' field.

After much wondering I think perhaps "-" is not a valid
char in an email-adr ?
Is this my problem?

== TIA

no-(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Many of us have to use fake 'From:' fields in NewsPosts
> to avoid spammers.
> I've been using no-(E-Mail Removed)
>
> But google doesn't find 'all posts
> between startDate & endDate by no-(E-Mail Removed)',
> although it does if I use another 'From:' field.
>
> After much wondering I think perhaps "-" is not a valid
> char in an email-adr ?
> Is this my problem?

- is valid. Looks like their search is broken since your posts
are there and can be found using "Find messages by this author"
from one of your messages.

no-(E-Mail Removed) writes:

> Many of us have to use fake 'From:' fields in NewsPosts
> to avoid spammers.
> I've been using no-(E-Mail Removed)
....
> After much wondering I think perhaps "-" is not a valid
> char in an email-adr ?
> Is this my problem?

No. A lot of chars are allowed in the local-part (left of @).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_a..._specification

Vilmos

In article <h9gddv$(E-Mail Removed)>, Joe Beanfish <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> no-(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > Many of us have to use fake 'From:' fields in NewsPosts
> > to avoid spammers.
> > I've been using no-(E-Mail Removed)
> >
> > But google doesn't find 'all posts
> > between startDate & endDate by no-(E-Mail Removed)',
> > although it does if I use another 'From:' field.
> >
> > After much wondering I think perhaps "-" is not a valid
> > char in an email-adr ?
> > Is this my problem?
>
> - is valid. Looks like their search is broken since your posts
> are there and can be found using "Find messages by this author"
> from one of your messages.
> --------
Well not for my attempts, which I've repeatedly logged.
Here's a log, with the long lines suitable cut.: ---
http://groups.google.com/groups?safe...1&as_uauthors=
(E-Mail Removed)&lr=&as_drrb=b
&as_mind=11&as_minm=8&as_miny=2009
&as_maxd=8&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=2009&num=30&hl=en

Groups [14]View all web results > Results 1 - 5 of 5 from Aug
11, 2009 to Sep 8, 2009 for author:(E-Mail Removed)
======= that's good one/example
http://groups.google.com/groups?safe...1&as_uauthors=
no-(E-Mail Removed)&lr=&as_drrb=b
&as_mind=11&as_minm=8&as_miny=2009
&as_maxd=8&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=2009&num=30&hl=en

Your search - - did not match any documents.
======= that's one of many/all failures, for "no-(E-Mail Removed)"

When I do online tests like this, I usually send a confirming task;
like Ccing to yourself, confirms that the email was successfuly
mailed.
=======
As you can see, I don't just use a 'browser' and fill in the
forms. I mostly use lynx, with my own created templates.
So now, I'm guessing that 'the normal broswers' convert
the "-" char ?
Can you see/capture what actual URL your browser sends ?
=======
>>Is this my problem?
Vilmos wrote:-

> No. A lot of chars are allowed in the local-part (left of @).

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_a..._specification
OK, the problem seems more complex ?

no-(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> In article <h9gddv$(E-Mail Removed)>, Joe Beanfish <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> no-(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>> Many of us have to use fake 'From:' fields in NewsPosts
>>> to avoid spammers.
>>> I've been using no-(E-Mail Removed)
>>>
>>> But google doesn't find 'all posts
>>> between startDate & endDate by no-(E-Mail Removed)',
>>> although it does if I use another 'From:' field.
>>>
>>> After much wondering I think perhaps "-" is not a valid
>>> char in an email-adr ?
>>> Is this my problem?
>> - is valid. Looks like their search is broken since your posts
>> are there and can be found using "Find messages by this author"
>> from one of your messages.
>> --------
> Well not for my attempts, which I've repeatedly logged.
> Here's a log, with the long lines suitable cut.: ---
> http://groups.google.com/groups?safe...1&as_uauthors=
> (E-Mail Removed)&lr=&as_drrb=b
> &as_mind=11&as_minm=8&as_miny=2009
> &as_maxd=8&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=2009&num=30&hl=en
>
> Groups [14]View all web results > Results 1 - 5 of 5 from Aug
> 11, 2009 to Sep 8, 2009 for author:(E-Mail Removed)
> ======= that's good one/example
> http://groups.google.com/groups?safe...1&as_uauthors=
> no-(E-Mail Removed)&lr=&as_drrb=b
> &as_mind=11&as_minm=8&as_miny=2009
> &as_maxd=8&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=2009&num=30&hl=en
>
> Your search - - did not match any documents.
> ======= that's one of many/all failures, for "no-(E-Mail Removed)"
>
> When I do online tests like this, I usually send a confirming task;
> like Ccing to yourself, confirms that the email was successfuly
> mailed.
> =======
> As you can see, I don't just use a 'browser' and fill in the
> forms. I mostly use lynx, with my own created templates.
> So now, I'm guessing that 'the normal broswers' convert
> the "-" char ?
> Can you see/capture what actual URL your browser sends ?

When viewing one of your messages on google groups such as
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....3bde40b72ad0c1
I can click "More options" and get "Find messages by this author" which
leads to this url
http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...Ct1A&scoring=d
which brings up posts by you. I don't know the encoding method that
google is using for the enc_author value.