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Re: [ietf-smtp] EHLO domain validation requirement in RFC 5321

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Sun, 27 September 2020 16:43 UTC

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On 9/27/2020 9:39 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
> I find that very prejudiced notion of "legitimate" offensive. 
> "legitimate" is legitimate content, nothing more or less.


Ahh.  Ok.

You are rejecting industry standard practice, because you disapprove of 
some of its methods.

Apparently you are imposing a set of criteria for deciding upon how to 
evaluate massive streams of mail that have very poor signal to noise 
rations that differ from the folk who have to process those massive streams.

Thanks for the clarification.

d/

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Dave Crocker
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