[Mailman-Developers] [MAILER-DAEMON@mira.linknet.com.au:Undeliverable Mail]

[Dan Wing]

> perhaps even worse, it's redundant.  why say 
> 
> user@domain.com <user@domain.com>
> 
> or even
> 
> "user@domain.com" <user@domain.com>
> 
> when simply
> 
> user@domain.com 
> 
> will do?  

Because in Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express, if a 
user is in your addressbook and you send a message to that
user, only their friendly name ("Keith Moore") appears in
the "To:" line.  You must click your mouse on the name to 
see the user@host form of the name.  The workaround is
to put moore@cs.utk.edu in the friendly name field so
that moore@cs.utk.edu displays in the "To:" line, which
is a more natural address for email for many, many 
people.

> a phrase containing another copy of the address conveys no additional 
> information, it just wastes bandwidth and invites stupid mail handling tools
> to play with it.

-d