It appears that Bill Cole via mailop <[email protected]> said: >Our dominant MUAs are designed by people who do not understand the >technical limitations of SMTP email. All they care about is looking >good.
I know some of those people and in this case, you're just wrong. There's been endless human factors research on this stuff. Showing the email address is a WKBI, seems plausible but in fact doesn't help. Partly that's because non-technical people don't know what to look for, partly because it's more subtle than many technical people think. Typical question. Which of these domains is a large well-known bank? 1. APPLYONLINENOW.COM 2. BANK-AMERICA.COM Of course it is the first one. There have been some efforts to try and provide better signals. For example, any domain name ending with .bank belongs to a real bank but there's only about 2000 of them and most of them are just parked rather than leading to the bank's actual web site. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
