Jacob,
JP> If the mail standards were developed anew with no need
JP> for backwards compatibility, one might say that an
JP> e-mail address should look like this:
...
JP> Now, I am fully aware that something like I describe
JP> above is not possible for backwards compatibility
JP> reasons.
You wrote the above immediately after responding to a note from me that
explained that we had such a notation for some years, but it was never used,
so it was finally deprecated.
d/
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