On 2024-03-08, Bill Cole via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > On 2024-03-08 at 12:07:23 UTC-0500 (Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:07:23 +0000) > Julian Bradfield via mailop <jmai...@julianbradfield.org> > is rumored to have said: >> Is there any reason not to use the old routing character '%' instead? > Yes: it is an old routing character > > As such, some sites may misinterpret it in ways that are NOT appropriate > for SRS.
How so? Even in the old world, the only site that ever needed to interpret it was the receiving site after the @. It has no special status, and is just another character that can appear in an unquoted local-part. It never had a status in Internet email (RFC822 routing was with the @route.domain: syntax). I don't deny that somebody *could* construct a configuration that did something weird with it, but I bet there isn't an existence proof; and if they did something weird for addresses not part of their domain, they wouldn't be compliant with either old or new RFCs, so who cares? Julian. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
