Re: Make username optional in email addresses

"John Levine" <[email protected]> 24 Feb 2023 06:50:40 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Organization Taughannock Networks
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It appears that Paul Smith  <[email protected]> said:
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>Why not just have a specific email address which means that.
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>In the same way that Web browsers will "autocomplete" a URL of 
>"example.com" to "https://www.example.com", a compliant email client could 
>"autocomplete" an email address of "example.com" to "[email protected]"
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>The "something" could be fixed, or discovered via DNS or similar

I am having trouble understanding why it would be a good idea to add a UI feature
that is at most a minor convenience to the 0.0001% of mail users with vanity domains,
and baffling and wrong for everyone else.

R's.
John