Randall Gellens wrote:
At 3:59 PM -0500 1/17/07, John C Klensin wrote:
--On Wednesday, 17 January, 2007 12:12 -0800 Randall Gellens
<randy(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> wrote:
Does the second-to-last sentence refer to an ASCII address,
or any address? The wording implies any address, but if
an address is non-ASCII, surely that is a good sign that
the owner of that address is an i18mail user?
Right. The situation that is being warned against is taking
an ASCII address as a clear sign that the address owner is
not an i18mail user.
I'd like to see the text improved to make this more clear. As
a suggestion, replace:
Note that under this definition, it is not possible to
tell from
the address that an email sender or recipient is an
i18mail user.
with:
Note that under this definition, it is not possible to
tell from
an ASCII address if an email sender or recipient is an
i18mail
user or not.
Hmm. One still can't tell from a non-ASCII address that the
recipient is an i18mail user or not, one can only tell that the
sender thinks that user is.
I'm happy to make the change Randy suggests unless others object
(I think it improves things). But, if we are going to do so,
let's figure out text to be sure things are completely right.
In that context, it seems to me as if the suggested replacement
sentence needs an additional few words. Suggestions welcome.
How about:
Replace:
Note that under this definition, it is not possible to tell from
the address that an email sender or recipient is an i18mail user.
with:
Note that under this definition, it is not possible to tell from
an ASCII address if an email sender or recipient is an i18mail
user or not. (A non-ASCII address implies that the owner of
that address is an i18mail user.)
Replaced text looks a lot better, I am a little bit concerned that the
relation between "an ASCII address" and "an sender / recipient" is
looser than I want it be. /* As a non-native, I feel always nervous when
word-smithing */
Can we me make the relation clearer if we changed it a little bit? For
instance;
Note that under this definition, it is not possible to tell
whether an email sender or recipient is an i18mail user or not
if his/her address is an ASCII address.
Regards
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