Re: [Endymail] Off we go...

Leo Vegoda <leo@vegoda.org> Thu, 28 August 2014 22:05 UTC

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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:04:45 +0100
From: Leo Vegoda <leo@vegoda.org>
To: Frank Li <frankli@cs.berkeley.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:42:40PM -0700, Frank Li wrote:

[...]

> While the email address is non-human-sensible, the mail client can provide
> local user-chosen bindings, similar to how a contact book on a phone maps a
> name to phone #s. Certainly there are other usability challenges as well
> though. 

We are still at a point in time where people need to write down
e-mail addresses with a pen or pencil for later transcription, or
spell them out loud.  Unless we can come up with something that is
typo-proof, I think that usage will be problematic.