Re: empty quoted strings and other oddities

Bruce Campbell <bruce.campbell@ripe.net> Fri, 04 October 2002 18:23 UTC

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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Keith Moore wrote:

> > 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).

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Bruce.