Re: Further thoughts on preferred printable representations...

At 01:19 03/06/30 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:

>Roy Badami writes:
> > most likely they will simply include an additional ASCII-only address...
>
>Let me get this straight. You think that, instead of using a generic
>``International style'' business-card-printing program, I should go set
>up a new domain name, new mailbox name, new URL, etc., and print those?
>
>Sounds like a lot of extra effort. What exactly is the benefit?

Most people hand out their business cards because they want to
be contacted. Making it easy for the people you give the business
card to contact you is in your own interest. Otherwise, why
hand out the business card in the first place?

Also, helping your counterparts to associating your name and your
email address, rather than having to think about you as a number,
will help you getting contacted, and getting contacted in a decent
way.

So ultimately, if you are doing it, you are doing it in your own
interest. If you don't want to do it, you don't have to.

Regards,    Martin.