Re: I-D Action:draft-newman-email-subaddr-01.txt

[Bill McQuillan <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 2007-12-04, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:24:03PM +0000,
>  Dave Cridland <[e-mail]> wrote 

> If I understand you well, you suggest to create (not describe) a new
> concept, "global subaddressing", with a standard delimiter and
> subaddressing-aware software, allowing new tricks (like the MLM you
> mention, which accepts mail only from subscribers and who can
> recognize them even when they use subaddressing).

> That's may be a good idea but it is something new, not a description
> of a current practice.

Well, it seems to be "partial" current practice. My public email address
goes to a forwarder (pobox.com) that, being fairly knowledgable in the
email area, will rewrite my address while preserving the detail portion
when forwarding it to my actual ISP. I know they understand the "+"
delimiter, but I haven't tested other delimiters.

Unfortunately, my current ISP rejects such addresses as Recipient Unknown!
This means that MY "local convention" is thwarted by my ISPs "border
servers".

I would love to point the ISP to an RFC that shows them what ought to be
allowed.

-- 
Bill McQuillan <[e-mail]>