Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id JAA14911; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:39:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (bulk_mailer v1.7); Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:38:21 -0400 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (cf v2.9s-UTK) id JAA14874; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:38:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tcbru22.cec.be (tcbru22.cec.be [158.169.10.11]) by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id JAA14842; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:38:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Received: from MX4.CEC.BE (tcbru11x [158.169.10.111]) by tcbru22.cec.be (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA02557 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:35:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by MX4.CEC.BE (Soft-Switch LMS 2.0) with x400 via CEC-NTL01 id 9999990001284915; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:35:51 +0200 X400-Received: by /PRMD=CEC/ADMD=RTT/C=BE/; Relayed; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:35:03 +0200 X400-Originator: Karel.DE-VRIENDT@DI.cec.be X400-Recipients: drums@cs.utk.edu X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=CEC/ADMD=RTT/C=BE/;9999990001284915000002L952] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re(2): Do not re Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:35:03 +0200 To: Jacob Palme Cc: Subject: Re(2): Do not recommend "quoted-string" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > At 09.21 +0200 97-09-01, Karel.DE-VRIENDT@DI.cec.be wrote: > > The most natural E-mail address is obviously the one that is based on the > > name of a person (as recognised by the recommendations of the EMA/EEMA). > > Unfortunately, for most people (those having non-ascii characters in > > names, those having names containing spaces), the primitive Internet > > E-mail addresses do not permit to do so. Quoted-strings are at least > > solving part of the problem. Because of some old, broken mailers, we > > should not throw this away. > > > > Karel De Vriendt (a name given to me by parents that were not aware of > > the Internet E-mail limitations, hence - for the Internet community - my > > name is transscribed as De-Vriendt) > > So you are hoping that if the drums document says that > "Karel De Vriendt"@DI.cec.be is permitted, > then some time in the future this will cause all mailers to be able > to handle that, so that you can switch to a more user-friendly e-mail- > address. I'll already happy with "Karel.De Vriendt"@di.cec.be what, to my understanding, is in line with RFC822. > > Should this be in the drums document, which is intended to document > what works today, or in some other document? If the drums document is taking into account all bugs in mailers presently used, the document obviously will be unusable as a guidance on how to do things. Karel (part of the original answer from Jacob truncated).