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

Quoteing [email protected], on Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:39:26PM -0500:
> So are you suggesting creating email addresses that look like:
> 
> 4301@908-410 
> 
> which would translate to an existing phone number 908-410-4301

Huh? What does that have to do with multi-lingual email addresses?

I'm suggesting that email addresses should be at least as useable as
telephone numbers. I can dial anywhere in the world on any handset
using 0-9, any email scheme that ends in me not being to email a
french friend because I'm in outer Mongolia, and the keyboard doesn't
do e-grave is going to be a pain in the ass, and nobody will thank you
for it.

Sam

 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
> > 
> >