Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-09

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

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>I'm more inclined to leave it alone:
>This is not conformance language at all, and isn't meant to be.  It's mild
>advice about how one might handle bad situations.  We could be consistent,
>and pick one word.  Or we can leave the document less stilted and have it
>read better.  We specifically don't *want* to be precise, here, about the
>strength or *exact* meaning of the advising words.

I agree with Barry here.

This draft of necessity skates the line between helpful advice and
standards vandalism.  In a better world, senders of mail would read
the fripping specs and send mail that conforms to it, but in this
world too many of them don't.  So this draft offers advice, but needs
to make it crystal clear that it's not excusing or endorsing the
original mistakes, and the less it reads like a standard, the better.

Regards,
John Levine, [e-mail], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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