Re: Another user-visible goal

Martin Duerst <[email protected]> Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:28:40 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ng
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At 11:52 04/06/04 +0100, Rodney Tillotson wrote:

>Then there's "envelope". We have in the UK, for instance, no
>convention that you record an authoritative source or return
>address on the outside of a letter (though it happens sometimes;
>I do it when I believe the recipient's mail service will expect
>it). I'm not commenting on whether that's good or bad; just that
>it's different.

Given the on average greater chance in the US of mail getting
lost or misdirected, and, recipients moving away without notice,
and so on, I can easily imagine why there is such a difference :-(.

Regards,    Martin.