On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:38:35 -0500 Jay R Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:36:26PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:

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Typical djb mistake.

While he reinvented common practice (a definite DJB-ism) he hardly violated any standard -- +-addressing is still mostly larval.

Really? I've seen it for *years*.

Similarly. Its penetration in terms of actual use has been damned small to near non-existant up until about 15 months ago however. Thus, on account of lacking critical mass, I account it larval.

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Every MTA I'm aware of that supports +-addressing mandates having the extension character set as part of the feature configuration.

Do that again? I fell off.

1. There are MTAs which either directly or through patch support what I'll loosely call +-addressing.

2. For each of those MTAs configuring +-addressing requires that you explicitly define the character to be used in segmenting the address.

3. None of these MTAs per se has a default +-addressing character from which the config may specify a deviation. Instead, the +-addressing character must be explicitly stated as part of the feature enebling.

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I've seen both '-' and '+' commonly used over tha last decade ro so outside of DJB circles. IIRC the early Sendmail patches for +-addressing used '-' by default until enough people yelled at Eric that it was too confusing and tended to screw up their other scripts.

I see.

Quite.

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Do Tim et al still do the Weds night/Sunday brunch meets?

Oh. Hey, Carnage. I wouldn't begin to know. I've seen Tim once in the last 6 years, at a SLUG meeting. He saw me, and hasn't been going to those meetings since.

I heard rumours for a while (semi-regularly exchange mail with Wilson and a couple old messages with Beach). I ran into Tim via email a few years back ('98?) who AIR wrote something quite ambiguous and then didn't reply further. I haven't been back to FL since 97 -- am a little curious.

-- J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--