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Re: drums2?

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> Thu, 22 August 2002 16:12 UTC

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In <200208211545.g7LFjL019594@astro.cs.utk.edu> Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> writes:

>2. invalidate a huge number of existing user agents by creating a new syntax
>   for local parts that is incompatible with the old one.

Do we actually know what part of the huge range of possibilities within
the present syntax of local-part are actually in regular use in existing
user agents or in actual email addresses?

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