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From: mark@cbcc.att.COM (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: Printable format
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Date: 20 Aug 90 15:06:51 GMT
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Actually, it seems like most of the world is ignoring X.400 semantics
in real products anyway.  The primary users of X.400 appear to be
the commercial email services, and they only use it to talk among
themselves.  They provide different user interfaces to their customers.

Perhaps the best way to write an X.400/X.500 email address on your
business card is to use the de facto standard, RFC 822/987.  Thus
the X.500 address
	Country		UK
	Org		UCL
	Org Unit	CS
	Surname		Kille
	Givenname	Steve
would simply be written
	Steve.Kille@CS.UCL.UK

This doesn't handle all the special characters and attributes that
are possible unless you resort to /= syntax on the LHS, but it seems
to be in wide use (with minor variations to include AD's and PD's and
fictitious countries like COM and EDU) and has proven itself to be
very easy to use in the real world.

	Mark