Re: Further thoughts on preferred printablerepresentations...

At 07:21 03/06/30 -0400, John C Klensin wrote:

>You may want to distinguish between "properly and in ASCII" from "properly 
>and appropriately in the country in which you are using the card" -- both 
>occur, and they aren't always the same. I've seen a fair number of 
>"German-Chinese" and "French-Japanese" cards, different cards used by the 
>same person in Japan and China, etc.   For business cards, you presumably 
>always know where you come from (or where your organization does) and 
>where you are, which gives only two (or sometimes three) cases.  For 
>anything handled on the Internet, the issue rapidly turns into a N-way problem.

I think good email clients will find clever ways to know which address
they should be sending to which people. The Internet not only connects
us with many people around the globe, computers also can help sort
things out for us.


Regards,    Martin.