[142301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Jun 20 20:10:08 2011
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "20 Jun 2011 22:36:18 GMT."
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:09:12 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <20110620223618.2927.qmail@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
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