BUG: GnuPG Key import fails to parse TLD email address

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Fri Mar 2 22:58:01 CET 2001


Taral <taral at taral.net> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:06:27AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Taral <taral at taral.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Actually, the problem is that the email address should be:
> > > 
> > > blah at ai.
> > 
> > In theory, I would agree, but this is not a mail address according to
> > RFC 821 or 822.
> 
> Those were written before MX records existed, IIRC.

Probably, but you could use the FTP MAIL command instead.---Sorry, I
don't see how these things are linked.

However, I suppose that the hierarchical namespace with few roots was
only starting to evolve during the early eighties.



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