On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:03:35AM +1300, Patrick O' Brien wrote:
Do I understand it that RFC 2142 is being cited as the correct "convention" for user names for email addresses?
RFC2142 is a Standards Track document. It specifies a number of mailbox names that must exist in any organisation. It says nothing about any other mailbox names.
Am I also to conclude that there is an issue with Domainz choice of the email address "4service(a)...", and that we might be acting in contravention to that RFC?
No. There would be an issue with RFC2142 support if the mailbox names specified in that document were not supported.
Let us look at RFC 2142, and pick out just one technical aspect -- section 7 the DNS. Let me be even bolder and quote...
Section 7 concerns contact addresses embedded within DNS SOA records. It has nothing to do with registry technical contact addresses.
So how many technical administrators in the .nz space this HOSTMASTER(a)... convention?
The use of "hostmaster" is a recommendation, not a requierement. And again, it says nothing about technical contact addresses in the register.
Personally, I'd conclude that if there is an RFC issue with the Domainz email address, then that issue is much, much wider. Is it really that big an issue?
Well, you can choose to be compliant with standards, or you can choose not to. I would have hoped that Domainz might try to set an example. In fact, it would probably have taken far less time to verify whether the RFC2142 aliases were accepted by Domainz's mail server (and to add them if necessary) than to formulate such an elaborate reply.
Rob, while I've got you, maybe you can do spare a thought for me too -- ask how I might feel when confronted with terms such as "l33t w4r3z d00dz"
While there is a corporate/government culture within NZ which finds the embedding of "nz" into the end of names natty, cute and professional, there is another, much wider, internet culture that associates similar spellings with software piracy, denial of service attacks and pornography. I would hope it was ignorance of the latter that led Domainz to choose its current branding, not an informed marketing decision :)
A simple explanation would be welcomed, and may personally come in handy one day, happy to take it off-line :-)
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