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Re: [art] Auto-configuring Email Clients via WebFinger

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 19 July 2019 01:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] Auto-configuring Email Clients via WebFinger
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> I did not mean to suggest they will not talk, but it's always best to 
> minimize touch points, as coordination can be difficult. I've found that 
> particularly true with larger companies, but I suspect that's why so many 
> just use Outlook and Exchange.

Yes indeed.  That's why the Mozilla design lets the mail people run their 
own server so they don't have to talk at all if they don't want to.

> email address. It would for 99% of the users out there, I suspect, but 
> somebody somewhere might still use some UUCP-style addresses.

As an old uucp user (ima!johnl) I can assure you that UUCP and every other 
non RFC 822 mail address scheme is dead dead dead.  There may be some uucp 
transport lurking but there's no bangs in the addresses.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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