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Re: [apps-discuss] Comments on Malformed Message BCP draft

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk@cloudmark.com> Fri, 15 April 2011 22:20 UTC

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To: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:20:50 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnt Gulbrandsen [mailto:arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no]
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:26 PM
> To: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Cc: ietf-822@imc.org; apps-discuss@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Comments on Malformed Message BCP draft
> 
> I found the advice rather naïve. Not bad, but also not very
> sophisticated, and I fear that extending it to be comprehensive will not
> produce a readable document.

It's meant only as a starting point.  And I think extending it, if done carefully, will produce something readable and valuable.

> Still, I can see value in a document whose abstract says "here are some
> of the bad things you must expect to receive, and not just from
> spammers". Is that the goal of your draft?

"...and what the consensus view is about what to do with them," precisely.

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