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Re: [EAI] The mailing list draft

Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Wed, 20 June 2012 06:54 UTC

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On 06/20/2012 02:14 AM, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
>> I suppose you could have two subscription addresses, one
>> for EAI and one for non-EAI, but even a weenie like me knows that's a
>> dreadful user interface that people will get wrong all the time.
>
> I guess that addresses the "is this a bad idea for some reason?".

I quite agree.

Also, I think that odd characters aren't worth time and attention, 
because they don't work reliably in general email addresses. Why bother 
writing about what won't work anyway?

(Anecdote alert: I personally have even given up on + since so many web 
forms tell me that arnt+thatvendor@gulbrandsen.priv.no is syntactically 
invalid. + isn't very odd as characters go.)

Arnt

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