Re: a few short notes
Iljitsch van Beijnum <[email protected]>
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On 3-feb-04, at 12:18, Paul Robinson wrote: > Why? Why not insist that all e-mail addresses should be accompanied > with a > chinese representation, or a russian address? What is so special about > the > latin character set? You mean apart from the facts that it's most widely understood by people, the most widely implemented in computers, and all internet-relevant standards that use text rely on it? A problem with having two variations of the same email address used together: I'm afraid this may be an in for email abusers, similar to the way you can spread a worm using a file called worm.jpg.vbs because the user thinks she's opening a JPEG file while the system thinks it's a visual basic script.