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From: JENNINGS%IRLEARN@pucc.princeton.edu (Dennis Jennings)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: Re: Printable format (was: Re: ISO/CCITT meeting report)
Message-ID: <9008201119.aa09713@ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 20 Aug 90 18:25:51 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 19 Aug 90 13:28:53 -0700

Would it be all too unreasonable to suggest that the business card
address and the e-mail address are one and the same thing, and that
business cards should only have one human readable address, not two
as has to be the case with RFC822 addresses.

For example, my address (business and electronic) should be:

Dennis M. Jennings,
Director, Computing Services,
University College Dublin,
Belfield,
Dublin, 4,
Ireland

This corresponds to:

Personal Name                   Dennis M. Jennings
Functional Name                 Director, Computing Services
Organisational Unit             Computing Services
Organisation/PRMD               University College Dublin
<local postal bits>             <Belfield, Dublin, 4,>
Country/ADMD                    Ireland

And, people should be able to send me mail using my personal name
or my functional name - just like mail. And the mailing system should
be able to work out what to do from the address given. (or tell the
user that regrettably more informations is required)

So, instead of adding e-mail addresses, we should surely be adopting
a form of address that will cover both the postal address and the
electronic address.  Perhaps the way to do this is to recognise that
the postal system has some intelligence in it, and the electronic mail
systems have little, and adopt the convention that spurious postal
address information be put in delimiters such as the angle brackets
used above.

Please don't flame at me for my ignorance - I am only a user.

Dennis