The difference is that a hyphen is used to separate two parts of a list address but never as a final character before the @ sign. I think that would appear to be out of balance sort of like an opening quote mark with no closing quote or an opening bracket with no closing bracket--you have the - to separate not followed by anything it is separating the first part from if that make any sense. Joan In a message dated 4/9/2012 9:32:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, DianaGM@dgmweb.net writes: A hyphen isn't that unusual. Over and above the -D, -L, -request, -admin versions, pretty much all the DNA lists are hyphenated, some more than once: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/DNA/

Indeed, I've never seen that combo in a list address, either - or any email address for that matter. It should be technically possible, but I can't imagine why someone would want it. It sure "looks" funny. Diana From: JYoung6180@aol.com [mailto:JYoung6180@aol.com] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 9:38 PM To: DianaGM@dgmweb.net; Listowners-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] Please can someone help! The difference is that a hyphen is used to separate two parts of a list address but never as a final character before the @ sign. I think that would appear to be out of balance sort of like an opening quote mark with no closing quote or an opening bracket with no closing bracket--you have the - to separate not followed by anything it is separating the first part from if that make any sense. Joan In a message dated 4/9/2012 9:32:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, DianaGM@dgmweb.net writes: A hyphen isn't that unusual. Over and above the -D, -L, -request, -admin versions, pretty much all the DNA lists are hyphenated, some more than once: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/DNA/