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Re: [dmarc-ietf] Nitpicky questions about DMARC record syntax

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com> Wed, 16 January 2019 20:00 UTC

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To: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>, dmarc@ietf.org
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From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Nitpicky questions about DMARC record syntax
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On 1/16/2019 11:18 AM, John Levine wrote:
> Remember, that if your software rewrites an invalid record into a
> correct one, you are trying to read the mind of the person who wrote
> the misformed record.


To emphasize a point you made earlier:  There are many, small 
adjustments that a receiver might make, with the intention of operating 
more robustly.  The current examples certainly quality as small and 
seemingly innocuous.  But the earlier point was that one deviation from 
the specification bodes ill for more important questions of conformance...

If they didn't read this part carefully, why believe they read other 
parts more carefully?

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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