I-D ACTION:draft-klyne-addressing-00.txt
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : E-mail addressing: the worst of all worlds? Author(s) : G. Klyne Filename : draft-klyne-addressing-00.txt Pages : 5 Date : 02/26/1997 This memo is a critique of Internet e-mail addressing, with particular reference to its suitability for use in a general purpose interpersonal communication medium as opposed to its present use largely within a restricted community. The critique focusses on the differences between e-mail addresses and other forms of addressing with which very many lay people are intimately familiar. This memo does not offer any solutions to the issues raised; rather it is hoped to provoke some debate on the matter. The author would be particularly interested in views from those whose natural language does not use the Roman (western) alphabet. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-klyne-addressing-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-klyne-addressing-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa: ftp.is.co.za o Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it o Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au o US East Coast: ds.internic.net o US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-klyne-addressing-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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