Which was the point I was making, albeit rather obliquely in my earlier post. An email to the ICO (Information Commissioner for non - UK readers) might just stir things up a bit. Chris.

In my last message message, something or someone downstream of me replaced the word "gmail" after the @ symbol, by three dots,in two places, and that wrecked the meaning. Truncation of the user-part

Shal's reference to gmail using "+" in some way associated with aliases, is not consistent with the observation (by me and others) that gmail truncates leftsides at a "+" . An email to

And also being on that group I have seen the offending message that should have just been sent to owners. Some owner messages should never be accidentally sent to the whole list. As for gmail

Chris, The problem is that the affected person may not be a user of the service that’s messed up. I would however say that there may be a case for filing a GDPR failure against them Dave

IMHO this is a very strong lever to try to get the service provider(s) to get their act in order; an address that was acceptably formatted was corrupted with the result that personal information sent

Thanks for that Dave! For the benefit of the others reading this, I believe Dave is referring to a group in which both Dave and I (and Chris) are members, and the individual in question was

Mark, GMAIL also ignores “+” and almost all special symbols. (it didn’t used to), but if moderators, one of whom is on BTINTERNET try and use this to chat to each other , then the results are

Folks, The trouble is when it goes wrong, the effect can be somewhat devastating. When it happened on one of the lists I am on some very personal information about an individual that should not have

Chris, Moreover, it is a decision with precedent. Gmail has been using + for aliases since long before Groups.io was started. Shal

Dave, They can post messages to the group using whichever interface they like. It is only email commands (including messages to +owner) that are afflicted by synchronoss' error. Whose web interface

Sorry; I think that is unfair. If + is supposed to be acceptable character under the terms of RFC 2821 then using it was a perfectly reasonable decision. The fact that a particular combination of

Peter, Gmail is another. It uses + in the user part as the lead-in for an alias address. That feature won't work properly with messages sent from a synchronoss afflicted service. You can add to

Um, the idea of btinternet users only posting via the web interface is surely a non starter. I have no statistics but I sense on the groups I moderate that probably 80% of users, including a LOT of

Mark/Shal: The fact that gmail ignores dots in the leftside of email addresses, is not relevant to this discussion. Gmail ONLY do this on emails coming into the gmail domain, and that's reasonable.

Mark, Thanks. I would make the following changes. I am including here the phrase "via email," which currently is appended to the log entry (but not included in your message) if the message was sent

Bryce, I wrote: After Re-reading the prior topic, and some consideration, I retract my suggestion. Instead I think that Hide Topic (and possibly Hide

Mark, Indeed. ;-) I too do not favor changing it. Or even aliasing it. I thought of that but realized it wouldn't solve the problem - the people who need to use the alias wouldn't know about it.

Many thanks, Mark! Best, Glenn

Late replying to this. I'm wary (used it right this time Shal!) of changing this, especially to a period. It's not like periods aren't interpreted differently by different mail servers. Gmail, for