Length of the local part of e-mails

[Julien ÉLIE <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Section 7.2 of USEAGE mentions that a newsgroup name is limited to 66 characters.
Section 3 of RFC 3696 mentions that the local part of an e-mail address is limited
to 64 characters.

Yet, section 3.5.1 of USEPRO has this note:

3.5.1.  Forwarding Messages to a Moderator

   NOTE:  Deriving the email address of the moderator of a group is outside
   the scope of this document.  It is worth mentioning, however, that a common
   method is to use a forwarding service that handles submissions for many
   moderated groups.  For maximum compatibility with existing news servers,
   such forwarding services generally form the submission address for
   a moderated group by replacing each "." in the <newsgroup-name> with "-"
   and then using that value as the <local-part> of a <mailbox> formed
   by appending a set domain.


Shouldn't a warning be put here?  Because the compatibility is not optimum
with mailers when a moderated newsgroup contains 65 or 66 characters.

Or will it be handled by USEAGE?

--
Julien ÉLIE

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