From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 04:50:21 CDT
In <8SQufPE3cDB@3247.org> list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
>> And you would need to restrict the definition of local-part so as
>> to leave room for some way to detect automatically which ones needed to be
>> decoded and which ones really were that funny string.
>It's very unlikely that local-parts be that funny to be misinterpreted
>as encoded strings.
But people who write standards spend 90% of their time worrying about
those "funny" cases, even though they know they will occur in only 0.0001%
of real cases :-( .
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