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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 04 December 2007 16:20 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: I-D Action:draft-newman-email-subaddr-01.txt
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 07:45:47PM -0800,
 Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com> wrote 
 a message of 95 lines which said:

> Currently, subaddressing is mostly part of the mostly undocumented
> email lore that some implementers are aware of while others are not.

And that's the right way: subaddressing does not have to be
documented, it is a local convention. (How can you tell if
bortzmeyer@nic.fr is not an address with subaddressing and "m" as the
delimiter?)

> Formalizing the concept is a good thing. 

I'm not convinced.

> This is useful, but separate.  (Also, wasn't this done a few years ago?)

I do not think so, alas. I'm engaged in a personal crusade against
such Web forms and the 1 or 2 % of the webmasters who do reply to my
complaints always said that bortzmeyer+something@nic.fr is not a legal
email address... Pointing them to RFC 2822 does not help, the grammar
is too... funny.

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