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From: nbevan@ESS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK (Nigel Bevan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: Order of fields in business card printed O/R-address format
Message-ID: <9104100714.aa11911@ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 91 14:20:13 GMT
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I agree with Christian that it would be nice to have plan for the type of
functionality he suggests, but if we forget the idea of the representation
of O/R addresses in the mean time, I suspect it could be a long wait until
we have standards for "user friendly directories"!

I agree that since the standard does not number OUs the order should not be
significant.  But the standard says it is, and I assume almost all
implementations treat it as significant.  Another case for a standard for fuzzy
matching!

Another trivial bit of functionality which would avoid numerous errors, would
be if one or more spaces in a field were treated as NO spaces, rather than as
one space at present, ie spaces should be ignored.  Users are not very good at
noticing significant spaces in proprietry names.  (To be sure to receive mail,
select an ADMD that does not have a space in their name!)