On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 11:42 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
Do not forget that as far as the sender is concerned, the
site doing the forwarding is the intended recipient of the email. So,
it is the recipient's problem and responsibility to accept mail sent
to addresses which are then forwarded to them.
That may be true, but it is the responsibility of this working group to
propose a solution for this newly-imposed problem, and ensure that any
necessary changes to current practice become widespread -- _before_
starting to rely on assumptions about it.
I am not suggesting that '-all' should be permanently forbidden, merely
that it must be forbidden in the first release of the new specification,
and must remain so until such time as the proposed solutions are
widespread.
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dwmw2