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Re: Email Subaddressing

"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu> Fri, 01 August 1997 00:50 UTC

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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>
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> Is there any way to make the answer be "yes"

MTAs and LDAs that don't support what the users want are thrown away.

Mailing list owners want per-recipient VERPs, for example. sendmail
doesn't support per-recipient VERPs. So they switch to qmail.

This is called competition. It's how the real world makes progress.

> other than standardizing the format subaddresses?

It's none of your business how a host interprets its local addresses.

---Dan
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