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From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: Printable format (was: Re: ISO/CCITT meeting report)
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Date: 15 Aug 90 08:32:39 GMT
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	I suppose that a simple, readable, business-card-printable, E-mail
	address is too much to ask for
Really? Plain RFC822 e-mail addresses are simple, readable and
business-card-printable. And even today's UUCP addresses usually
meet these requirements.

	but the present suggestion of /x=y/ types of addresses that must
	include the public carrier and other organizational information
	appears to be rather awkward and to warp the user interface to
	the needs of the computer.
Organisational information usually is meaningful information and
is in general present in RFC822 addresses too. But clearly such
administrative things as management domains (ADMD and PRMD) should
be none of the user's business.

	All these years I had thought that computers were rather wonderful
	because we could warp them to the needs of humans. Have we lost
	something in this drive to provide international standards?
Yes, in the name of progress and standards we are rapidly loosing
what we have: simplicity.


	Piet