Re: New draft, new idea

At 12:05 AM -0500 2/5/04, John Cowan wrote:
>In addition,
>if an email-address-assigner screws up and hands out the same displayedL=
HS
>twice, we may have two mailboxes that appear to have the same address
>at the MUA level.

Not at all. The display name has no connection to the mailbox name=20
anywhere other than in the MUA. Therefore, two people at ccil.org=20
could say the display name for their two different mailboxes is=20
"Jos=E9". The display is local to the MUA reading the message.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium