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On 24 May 2001, Stainless Steel Rat wrote:

> * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) on Thu, 24 May
>   2001
>| These guys' lives are so miserable already, why make it harder?
>=20
> Then set "system-name" to something useful and be done with it.
> That is about as easy as it gets.

It's not so easy, for system-name is used for two different things:
(a) for the mail address, and (b) for the Message-ID header.  The
requirements for these two are different.  It's not always possible to
have one value fulfill both requirements.

Now you can claim that a new variable should be introduced for the
Message-ID header, and I claim that a different variable should be
used for the mail address.  The end result is the same.  Except that
the variable for the mail address already exists -- mail-host-address
could be used.

In Germany, there are a number of dialup providers which provide
call-by-call accounting.  You call them, they give you an IP address,
you can do IP.  These providers do not provide a mailbox for the
people dialing them.  However, there are other freemail providers
which one can use.  Your requirements would prevent me from using
their convenient and cheap service.  I think it is not the job of a
standard to prevent me from using a cheap service.

kai
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