[UA-EAI] Using search engine translators on unfamiliar email addresses

[Asmus Freytag]

On 6/25/2020 10:52 AM, John Levine wrote:
>> Translating the content of the email and email address are not the same. In fact email address should not eb and can not be translated.
>> pavanaja at pvanaja.in  and ಪವನಜ@ಪವನಜ.ಭಾರತ are not the same.
>>
>> Did I misread the question, aby any chance?
> We are in complete agreement here.  Translating e-mail addresses makes no sense,
>
> R's,
> John
>
What might make sense would be to translate not the protocol e-mail 
name, but the "friendly" name (and / or to provide a translation of the 
username as a "friendly" name). That's a user agent type issue - while 
users could manually do that, it's cumbersome; I've been on some lists, 
where such a service would have made it easier to know who was taking 
part in the conversation instead of "<unreadable> wrote:"

A./

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