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Re: [ietf-smtp] Make username optional in email addresses

Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> Sat, 18 February 2023 15:46 UTC

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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 16:46:31 +0100
Author: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
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Peter J. Holzer wrote in
 <20230218095320.ejk4gfawojzezg2h@hjp.at>:
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 |PS: I don't really see the value of the proposition. Like many other

Me too.  And there are known names, established for at least four
decades, that everybody used to know, and that can be locally bend
to whoever it may concern.
And if it is only Postmaster.

--steffen
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