RFC 4096 on Policy-Mandated Labels Such as "Adv:" in Email Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best

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        RFC 4096

        Title:      Policy-Mandated Labels Such as "Adv:" in Email
                    Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best
        Author(s):  C. Malamud
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       May 2005
        Mailbox:    carl@media.org
        Pages:      14
        Characters: 31618
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-draft-malamud-subject-line-05.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4096.txt

This memo discusses policies that require certain labels to be
inserted in the "Subject:" header of a mail message.  Such policies
are difficult to specify accurately while remaining compliant with
key RFCs and are likely to be ineffective at best.  This memo
discusses an alternate, standards-compliant approach that is
significantly simpler to specify and is somewhat less likely to be
ineffective.

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