>But regardless of how you choose to resolve these issues, the bottom >line is that it is a mistake to assume that your own experiences with >things like list operation will necessarily be shared by others. The >amount of variation out there is really quite astonishing.
Indeed. I'm collecting info on the way various list management packages handle addresses in incoming mail on the ASRG wiki at http://wiki.asrg.sp.am/wiki/List_managers Contributions encouraged. (Feel free to send me notes if you don't want to edit it yourself.) >You're completely missing my point. This needs to be cast as a >general local part structuring mechanism, not as something useful for >this one use case. Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see what problem a general local part structuring mechanism solves. For the MIME example, it's clearly useful for the MUA to be able to extract opaque chunks of typed stuff after the message is delivered and hand them off to applications to interpret them, but I don't see the equivalent here. The various prefixing applications likely happen at different points in the mail handling process. I also note that VERP, which I believe is the most common use of embedded addresses, doesn't work with a fixed prefix. R's, John
