Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
I was under the impression that even back in the day, that format was not
common. If you've got mail that old, would you care to check and see how
much you have with addresses like that?
It looks like the peak was in 1995 (in my kept mail). Owing to a
series of unfortunate events, I don’t have any mail from before
about 1989, but for what I do have, it was low then, increased
to 1995 and tailed off again, with hardly any after 2005.
As to proportions, I have about 1800 messages (out of something
like 50000 total) with () in the addresses, but some of those
really are comments (and some a bit more ambiguous, such as
MAILER-DAEMON@… (Mail Delivery Subsystem) where one could split
hairs about whether that was a comment or the entity’s name),
but I haven’t worked out what the proportion was in 1995.
--
Jón Fairbairn
Jon(_dot_)Fairbairn(_at_)cl(_dot_)cam(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk
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