Rob,
Given the personal experiences that you seem to have had with the use of the
"4service(a)domainz.net.nz" email address, I can understand how that might
frustrate you.
I'm sorry if our choice of the user name field in the domainz email address
gives rise to specific issues with you and your customer base.
FWIW, our experience is that the choice of our email address has not been
raised as a major barrier before, either by Name Holders or through the ISP
Channel.
Emotions aside, maybe I'm missing something here.
Do I understand it that RFC 2142 is being cited as the correct "convention"
for user names for email addresses?
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?
Let us look at RFC 2142, and pick out just one technical aspect -- section 7
the DNS. Let me be even bolder and quote...
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. DOMAIN NAME SERVICE ADMINISTRATION MAILBOX
In DNS (see [RFC1033], [RFC1034] and [RFC1035]), the Start Of
Authority record (SOA RR) has a field for specifying the mailbox name
of the zone's administrator.
This field must be a simple word without metacharacters (such as "%"
or "!" or "::"), and a mail alias should be used on the relevant mail
exchanger hosts to direct zone administration mail to the appropriate
mailbox.
For simplicity and regularity, it is strongly recommended that the
well known mailbox name HOSTMASTER always be used
Simon Lyall wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andy Gardner wrote:
4service(a)domainz.net.nz
I wonder if I am the only person who thinks of things like send-me-some-warez-d00d(a)domainz.net.nz everytime I see that address? It just goes with the general dumbing-down of the Internet, where NSI
now
sells web addresses, rather than domain names.
RFC 2142
I'm sure that there have been some pretty dubious RFC's written in the past by people seeking fame. I definately doesn't mean that the world has to adopt them all.
I'd hardly call Dave Crocker and Paul Vixie 'dubious RFC authors seeking fame'.
But then we'll end up in a discussion about the importance of standards, and someone will joke about Microsoft standards, and then the discussion will turn into......
Just try explaining the address '4service(a)domainz.net.nz' over the phone to any random clueless person, just once. Suffer through numerous corrections of any combination of 'for', '4', 'service', 'domains', 'domain', 'domains', 'domainz', '.net', '.co' and so on. Wait patiently through the inevitable half hour diversion into whether or not you can have a number in an email address. Fume quietly while clueless person says (in tones of deep distrust), "Well, *I'VE* never seen that before ... are you _sure_?". Notice how the combination of 31337 w4r3z d00d mailbox name and saccarine pun on 'domains' and 'NZ' makes your job just that little bit harder than it really needs to be. Curse Domainz. Contemplate outsourcing all of your DNS services to some third party, just so you don't have to deal with this sort of crap.
Did I bother sending this??? Geesh.
Heh, I can't believe I bothered replying to it. Slow day at the office. Regards, Rob. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog