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[Tools-discuss] Re: Reaching RFC authors

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 18 August 2024 19:10 UTC

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It appears that Michael Tuexen  <michael.tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> said:
>is it intended that the authors of RFC n can be reached via the
>email address rfcn@ietf.org <mailto:rfcn@ietf.org>, where n is the number of the RFC?

No.

R's,
John

PS: We recently had a discussion related to this topic.  You can try the author
addresses in the RFC, and in some cases where addresses have changed, you can find
newer addresses by looking them up in the mail archive or datatracker.  In a few
cases the RPC has newer addresses.

Addresses like that with a simple regular pattern would be scraped by spambots in
about ten seconds and so would need spam filters so fierce that they'd reject a
lot of real mail, too.

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