Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:25:15 -0500
From: Ken Hornstein <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| So _could_ you use it more? Sure. But I think in practice it's like
| a few of the other oddball things in the RFC-822 syntax; little used,
| and problematic in practice.
Absolutely - though (and given I don't personally generate the form that
exposes the addresses) no-one has reported any problems, and I do use it
quite a bit - including sending to fairly clueless users. The empty
group-list form is the easy one for MUA's to deal with though, all they
need to do is ignore it.
But like many things, there's a chicken and egg problem - as long as nothing
seems able to deal with these, everyone will avoid using them. As long as
everyone avoids using them, no-one bothers implementing sane handling for them.
And from the other message from you ...
| This, and the other option you propose, end up being a little hard to deal
| with in practice because it's all tied up in the address parser routines.
I wasn't actually proposing anything - I was giving an example of the kind
of syntax that someone who actually wanted to propose this might want to
adopt. If I thought it would be easy to make this work, I'd probably do
it, but I don't, so...
kre
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