Hi Mark,
ncc and pcc are vastly different utilities. Similar mail header addition
is one similarity though. But I guess the kind of application and the
kind of audience both are looking at are very different.
Ncc is more of a negate that simplifies the users work in typing out a
whole lot of mail-ids and utilize the availability of aliases which are
available. We had discussed already of the inability for the whole world
to apply to it. But it is the same case with a broken MTA who may have
the Cc not implemented properly. To be more practical it can be
implemented probably on an org wide scale wherein mandated MTA's and
MUA's are to be used and this is not seen like a push it down the throat
feature but a take it if you feel like feature.
Another point that came about is utility of the ncc feature. We do not
argue the utility of the Cc feature, though it is similar to the To
field, Cc has its own merits and just because someone does not use the
To field and the Cc field is very redundant, we do not go ahead and
think of removing the Cc. Ncc is more of a feature that is helpful to
all who do a lot of mailing to aliases and I do not mean mailing-lists
when I say aliases.
I guess branding the both as a deja vu might not be entirely ok just
because they sound similar.
(a deja vu occurs where there is a change in the Matrix ;))
willemien(_at_)amidatrust(_dot_)com wrote:
I agree with Markus
This draft is only good to test your knowledge of the various mail protocols
by finding all the errors in this one.
On a first quick reading I discovered 3 errors
1 wrong naming of RFC's
2 non existing entities (SMTP headers???)
3 (RFC2822?) headers changing by non recognising MDA's?? (that means nothing
less than a non backward compatability)
Who can find more errors ...
AFAIK the same type and idea of proposal as discussed before in
draft-arun-ncc-smtp-02.txt
with the same flaws and even from the same group ... HP India.
Now the field is called Pc instead of Ncc.
The author agains completely mixes 2821 and 2822.
Reminds me of some broken handheld (psion?) software in the end 90s.
They sent the Bcc field along for the SMTP server to take care of it.
\Maex
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Arun
Invention is the mother of necessity.
-- Thorstein Veblen