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Re: [apps-discuss] Call for adoption of draft-kucherawy-mta-malformed-00.txt as an APPSAWG document

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Fri, 08 July 2011 17:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Call for adoption of draft-kucherawy-mta-malformed-00.txt as an APPSAWG document
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> It certainly depends on the context, and the problem.  If the problem is
> that the subject line is missing, Mom might fix it.  If it's that the
> message-id has two @ signs, probably not.

Usually, the problem is that the body of the message contains a stupid
joke that everyone has seen 17,000 times.  Mom certainly won't fix
that.

In that case, I think the right work-around is to silently discard it.

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