Hi, On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > How about underscore ("_"), dash ("-") and dot (".")? Within email > addresses, each of those are quite common. I do need the dash only. I think this is usually done with an alias. user: joeb email: joeb@domain alias: joe.bloggs@domain Having a long and convoluted username is probably a bit of a curse in practical terms. Gavin