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Re: [apps-discuss] update to rfc5965

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 07 July 2013 18:39 UTC

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>Has anyone implemented this?

Zip with a known password is a convention in the very small malware
research community, but I haven't seen it anywhere else.

Personally, I don't think that kludges to work around defective
implementations belong in standards.  The problem is that some
organizations run mail to their abuse mailbox through spam filters.
To the extent that a standard should address that at all, it should
say Don't Do That.

R's,
John

PS: I also think that it's hard to think of a worse idea than a standard
way to get malware past spam filters.

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