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Re: [Asrg] TitanKey and "white lies"... (Faking SMTP hard errors "improves" C/R utility?)

Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net> Fri, 30 May 2003 01:45 UTC

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To: Peter Kay <peter@titankey.com>
cc: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>, Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com>, asrg@ietf.org, brunner@nic-naa.net
Subject: Re: [Asrg] TitanKey and "white lies"... (Faking SMTP hard errors "improves" C/R utility?)
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:35:49 -0400

> 1. we don't really care what error message to generate.

You may want to reconsider this.

> What's important to us ...

May not have a single answer.

Anyway, the report the fragment quoted from caused a party in an action to
drop money on the table. It isn't perfect (my litigator would prefer that
I write for an 11th grade (US) reader with little computer experience and
no "theory", but that's getting ahead of my self), but it is what I wrote.

Eric
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