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  Msg # 312 of 32006 on ZZNE4431, Saturday 5-12-23, 2:28  
  From: BRUCE MURPHY  
  To: RUSS ALLBERY  
  Subj: Re: RFC2822-compliant email addresses  
 From: pack-news@rattus.net 
  
 Russ Allbery  writes: 
  
 > Bruce Murphy  writes: 
 > > Russ Allbery  writes: 
 > 
 > >> Could you please specifically list the newsreaders that are broken by 
 > >> Guy's messages?  Note that being unable to reply to his posts via 
 > >> e-mail is not broken; broken would be crashes, inability to read his 
 > >> messages, corruption of the newsgroup, or similar problems. 
 > 
 > > Breaking in this case means disabling the reply-by-email function with 
 > > an error. Sounds like breaking to me. 
 > 
 > Okay.  So you feel this way about everyone who posts to Usenet with an 
 > unrepliable address?  You must really dislike a lot of people. 
  
 Yep. Rude bastards the lot of them. 
  
 > Or are you particularly upset by particular *types* of errors?  And if so, 
 > why are some errors worse than others? 
  
 Nono, consistency all the way. 
  
 > >> I think you're overstating this for dramatic effect. 
 > 
 > > I think you're overstating this for dramatic effect too. 
 > 
 > Uh-huh.  Well, on that, I'm happy to let the audience draw their own 
 > conclusions. 
  
 Uh-oh invoking the peanut gallery. 
  
 B> 
  
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