Re: Extended newsgroup tags; another approach

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From: Claus Färber (list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 11:52:00 CDT


Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> And in the few places where interoperability with mail is required,
> notably sending to moderators, it will be no solution, because what the
> moderator will see is the ASCII tag, not the "real" name of the group
> (because you cannot expect mail to understand the machinery for
> translating it into 'prettyname' form).

Why not? Most messaging programmes support both mail and news (and will
have to support Punycode for domain names of email addresses).

Claus

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