Re: [apps-discuss] Adoption of draft-kucherawy-received-state?

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>While I am unaware of any standards usage of this particular extensibility
>feature, ever since it was defined there has been some ad-hoc use of it. I have
>not observed any issues with this usage. To the extent there have been
>problems, it's been with obsolete forms that have never worked well and jsut a
>general failure to implement basic stuff like date-time parsing propoerly.

I've written my share of received header parsers (it's unavoidable if
you want to send a non-trivial number of abuse reports) and I will
agree that extra clauses are not an issue.  The problem, as usual, is
people who don't read the spec at all before they start coding, and
there's not much we can do about that.

R's,
John