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Jens Hoffmann jh at ivm.net
Fri Oct 10 14:15:35 CEST 1997

Hi,

"Janos Zsako wrote:"
 
> I know this is not in accordance with RFC952. My question really is

That's one of the reasons.


> what technical problems could be expected if a TLD were to decide that
> it allows the above (and currently the required domain name length is only
> two characters).

Hmm. I'D hate to teach sendmail to understand the difference between:

jh@[194.64.7.1] and jh at 194.64.7.1.de

That's a point which comes to mind, without delving deeply into the problem.

Greetings,
   Jens



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