Re: [Asrg] We don't need no stinkin IMAP or POP, was Adding a spam button to MUAs

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 06 February 2010 06:22 UTC

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>>> I think the latest round of discussion has eliminated any interest in the
>>> message retrieval mechanism.
>>
>> Um, this discussion has been about keying the ARF report to the name
>> of the POP or IMAP server, remember?
>
>name of.

But if you pick up the mail using something other than POP or IMAP,
there's no server and no name.

> > I don't see any a priori reason to expect MUAs to be any worse at
> > looking up SRV than looking up TXT.
>
>What about:  TXT is older and pervasive?

SRV has been around for 15 years, and it's intended for telling you
where a domain provides a particular service, which is what we're
doing here.  Is there DNS software we care about that can support TXT
with a funny name but not SRV?

>Is there some reason this line of design debate is being based on
>theory rather than empirical knowledge?

I hope not.  If the age of the RR type is important, I would suggest
using HINFO, which was defined four years before TXT was.  If we agree
that's a silly distinction, why is TXT vs. HINFO silly, but SRV
vs. TXT is not?

R's,
John