From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36376 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sender header? Date: 24 May 2001 21:23:05 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Message-ID: References: <01May23.141128edt.115245@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.115917edt.115250@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.143521edt.115214@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.153439edt.115213@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.163305edt.115259@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.172056edt.115272@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171972 8278 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:46:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:46:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 1599 invoked by alias); 25 May 2001 01:23:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1594 invoked from network); 25 May 2001 01:23:05 -0000 Original-Received: from h0060978d8c91.ne.mediaone.net (HELO peorth.gweep.net) (ratinox@24.147.75.115) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 May 2001 01:23:05 -0000 Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by peorth.gweep.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01599; Thu, 24 May 2001 21:23:05 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-Lines: 28 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36376 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36376 * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) on Thu, 24 May 2001 | Really? Why should a login have anything to do with a mail address? Because a mailbox is defined as type "addr-spec", which is" 3.4.1. Addr-spec specification An addr-spec is a specific Internet identifier that contains a locally interpreted string followed by the at-sign character ("@", ASCII value 64) followed by an Internet domain. The locally interpreted string is either a quoted-string or a dot-atom. If the string can be represented as a dot-atom (that is, it contains no characters other than atext characters or "." surrounded by atext The defacto standard for the locally interpreted string is one's login name, has been that way for more than 30 years. | Why should a FQDN be (the after-@ part of) a mail address? Because a domain-literal is exactly that. Together, "login @ fqdn" absolutely identifies the sender given a reasonably configured system. -- Rat \ Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ unknown glowing substance which fell to PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ Earth, presumably from outer space.