In message <20110620223618.2927.qm...@joyce.lan>, "John Levine" writes: > >> do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists? > > > >Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. > > You're in good company. It's hard to find a modern mail system that > allows abbreviated domain names in addresses. I just checked the mail > at AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail, and the one at Tucows which is used > by a lot of large corporate mail systems, and none of them will let > you send a message to an address like foo@bar. Note that Yahoo and > Hotmail each handle mail for many large ISPs.
Abbreviated names make perfect sense within a company be they mail (submission), ssh or telnet or within the home. > There's a lot of advice that made sense in 1989 which is irrelevant > now. Programming around mail systems that rewrite partially qualified > addresses is in that category. It may not be possible for people to > send mail to addresses like n@ai, but that's a very different problem > from it going to the wrong place. > > R's, > John -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
