Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)

So are you suggesting creating email addresses that look like:

4301@908-410 

which would translate to an existing phone number 908-410-4301

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Roberts" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)


> 
> We already have internationalized email addresses, in a sense, you can
> put a multi-lingual phrase before the address. A few email clients (that
> I hate, but whatever) actually don't even show you the email address,
> they just show you the (multilingual) name. So, its possible to write
> your name in any character set you like beside your address.
> 
> The idea of multi-lingual local-parts sounds great, the inability to
> communicate with people in other countries doesn't. I couldn't even
> get a chinese speaking friend to type in a chinese email address on my
> machine, since I don't have a chinese character input method for Mutt,
> so even literacy wouldn't necessarily help!
> 
> Somebody else mentioned the hotel in Turkey with the Turkish email
> address.  With a phone, I may not be able to speak to that hotel keeper
> in Turkey, but I can dial his number with my phone, and my roommate
> speaks French, and maybe so does he a little, so she can help me out.
> Email needs to be like that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sam
> 
>