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Re: empty quoted strings and other oddities

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Fri, 04 October 2002 18:50 UTC

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> > > any software
> > > generating a domain literal would need to take some appropriate
> > > steps.
> >
> > has anyone here actually seen a significant operational problem
> > associated with this?
> 
> 'Not yet', but give the spammers time (although I don't think they've
> finished making '<>' fully useless yet).

spammers might or might not try using ""@[] but whether they do so
will not affect their ability to send spam.

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