Comments for Dragons in the Algorithm

Comment on How Long is an Email Address? by mcherm

mcherm — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:43:39 +0000

acharyasripad: I would suggest you host your own mail server.

Comment on How Long is an Email Address? by acharyasripad

acharyasripad — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:47:09 +0000

Sir,
I want to beat the record of some one who created 411 characters long email id. Now, I have prepared more than 555 characters longest meaning full email id. No one websites are allowing. Pl name which website allows for creating more than 555 characters too long email id in this technology world.
Pl encourage.

Comment on Set Default Address Book in Outlook 2010 by alan

alan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:39:26 +0000

brilliant. thank you

Comment on I dream of Satoshi Nakamoto by Matt

Matt — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:30:36 +0000

Great post! Just found your site, look forward to reading through it. (I sound like a robot but I’m not!)

Comment on I dream of Satoshi Nakamoto by Sergio Demian Lerner

Sergio Demian Lerner — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:00:26 +0000

I also would prefer he could live a peaceful life. And I hope he manages to slip through the eyes of millions of Bitcoin users.

But he left this trace, that sooner or later someone would find.

I’m optimistic: if he is half the genius I think he is, he will find the way out of this labyrinth.

Comment on In Defense of the Much-Maligned GOTO by nick

nick — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:56:06 +0000

I agree. as a programmer, I always ask Why and When, not How and What. but majority programmers go for latter, hence they all hate GoTo. crowd follower

Comment on How NOT to do technical recruiting: Sunil Kumar of Panzer Solutions by Vance

Vance — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:44:49 +0000

I found your blog after you commented on mine- and BOOM- this thing is great. You are bold for naming and shaming but I applaud that- people that throw around H1B visa possibilities are snakes.

Comment on Set Default Address Book in Outlook 2010 by ave

ave — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:08:43 +0000

Thanks
A real life saver (for me)
What would I have done…?
Dave

Comment on How Long is an Email Address? by mcherm

mcherm — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:15:54 +0000

Alvin:

Are you saying that you want to have an email address that is 255 characters? If so, then as Porges (or the article linked in the comments) says, you are going one too long: 254 characters is the longest legal address.

As for getting one that long, I don’t know of any company offering long email addresses other than abcdefg[...].com (listed in the article). They only offer addresses up to 100 characters long. To do longer than that you would probably need to run your own SMPT server — one where you had modified the source code to allow extra-long usernames.

Of course it wouldn’t work very well: most other systems on the internet would reject your email address as invalid. But if you ran your own server at least it would (technically) *BE* valid up to 254 characters.

It is entirely possible that this doesn’t answer the question you MEANT to ask. If so, perhaps you can clarify what you really wanted to know.
– Michael Chermside

Comment on How Long is an Email Address? by Alvin

Alvin — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:08:53 +0000

I am trying to create a valid Email Address up to 255 characters, but I am not too sure how to do that. I am in need of help.