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Article #1433Re: configurable delimiters needed in aliases file for x.400 addresses
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 1990 18:00
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 1990 18:00
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In article <J.R4CDA@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <40713@think.Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>> The days are long gone when we should expect ordinary users to type
>> "addresses" into their mail system user interfaces.
>I really don't see why E-mail addresses need be any more complex than
>phone-numbers, or street addresses at the worst.
Because email addresses have to be processed by computers, and used for
looking up information in a worldwide distributed database, and intended to
specify a particular person and even a specific choice of the roles the
person plays.
On the other hand, street addresses are processed by humans. And phone
numbers don't get you to a particular person, they just get you to a phone
-- you still have to ask whoever answers "May I speak to so-and-so?".
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
{uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: configurable delimiters needed in aliases file for x.400 addresses Message-ID: <40888@think.Think.COM> Date: 21 Jul 90 18:00:44 GMT References: <P2M42+@xds13.ferranti.com> <40713@think.Think.COM> <J.R4CDA@xds13.ferranti.com> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 20