If X.400 had won over SMTP, email addresses would look like: "G=martin;S=kleppmann;O=linkedin;P=tele;A=telemax;C=us" tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1685
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@martinkl I used to have one of those on my business card
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@stilkov Cool! I'm actually surprised that I had never come across non-RFC822 addresses before.
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@martinkl It actually sucked, even back then :-)

Feb 26, 2013 · 8:27 PM UTC

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@stilkov Though apparently X.400 supported "multimedia" messages before SMTP got MIME!