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Subject: Re: Implementing Mail Domain Addresses and Nameservers
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>      2) flush mailboxes such as netinfo@ucbjade.Berkeley.EDU which are
> completely ridiculous to mail to.  A more reasonable address would be
> "Bill Wells"@Berkeley.EDU, which hopefully some reasonable mail user
> interface can arrive at by sending mail to "Bill Wells"@Berkeley.  Of
> course, this means thinking about the semantics of mailboxes as
> something other than login user names.  It also means fixing Unix to
> comprehend spaces in mailbox names, something that appears impossible
> to do (even though every other operating system has).

Although I definitely agree with Mark that RealName@Organization is
better than RandomUser@SomeLocalHost.Organization, I don't like to rule
out the possibility of sending explicitly addressed mail.  IF there
exist some local organizational space THEN you should be able to
explicitly address some random recepient in that space.  In the case of
Berkeley, they happen to have a bunch of physical machines in their
local space, so alright, why not be able to use that?

When it comes to choosing between different formats for RealUser, I
prefer Lennart.Lovstrand@LiUIDA.UUCP (which is my home address (yes, I
*do* know that UUCP is not a "real" domain)) in favor of "Lennart
Lovstrand"@LiUIDA.UUCP.  I know that both are perfectly legal with
respect to RFC822, but the former feels more in the flavor of the format
...and is perfectly simple to use with Unix/Sendmail. ;-)

--Lennart (Postmaster@LiUIDA.UUCP when not at Xerox PARC)

The previous statements are of my personal opinion and has no connection
to those of Xerox Corp.