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001099_marca@wintermu….ncsa.uiuc.edu _Wed May 12 19:58:40 1993.msg
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Date: Wed, 12 May 93 13:21:50 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, uri@bunyip.com
Cc: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Mail addresses as URLs (clarification)
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I previously wrote:
> >some of the more cryptic addresses (e.g., gatewayed through Sprintmail
> >-- anyone seen one of those yet? strange stuff...) that are starting
> >to pop up? Sure, there can be mappings established, but why bother?
....which apparently caused some misunderstandings. My point, which I
thought was clear, was that email addresses, including
Sprintmail/X.400 addresses, should be left alone and not arbitrarily
rearranged as part of a 'mailto' or 'smtp' URL. That is,
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu should be:
mailto:marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
and not:
mailto://ncsa.uiuc.edu/marca
and a Sprintmail address like (just to make one up)
/PN=joe.blow/FOO=bar/BLAZ=blech/ARGH=urgh@sprint.com should be:
mailto:/PN=joe.blow/FOO=bar/BLAZ=blech/ARGH=urgh@sprint.com
and not:
mailto://sprint.com//PN=joe.blow/FOO=bar/BLAZ=blech/ARGH=urgh
or:
mailto://sprint.com/ARGH=urgh/BLAZ=blech/FOO=bar/PN=joe.blow
or whatever.
Again, my point was: email addresses (including Sprintmail/X.400)
GOOD, rearranging email addresses BAD.
Hope that clears things up.
Marc
--
Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu