mystified by mailto address

[Simon Burton]

Well, i just tried with the '+' in there;
see how it goes.
I've never seen a + in a username before.

Simon Burton.

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:48:33 +1100
Simon Burton <simonb at webone.com.au> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> Been trying to contact this guy:
> mailto:overcode+sdlgc at overcode.net
> and have tried all kinds of combinations.
> Is the '+' just a space? I don't think sylpheed
> is handling the space (just dropping the first word).
> Any ideas? He has other mailto addresses but
> they all do this '+' thing:
> http://isengard.overcode.net/~overcode/
> 
> thanks alot,
> Simon Burton.
>