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Re: [secdir] SECDIR Review of draft-ietf-morg-multimailbox-search-06

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Thu, 03 March 2011 13:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] SECDIR Review of draft-ietf-morg-multimailbox-search-06
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> I'm thinking about this the other way around: if we're dealing with the
> (perhaps more common) case of misconfiguration rather than malice, this
> delivers a poor user experience.  With a silent failure, the user is likely
> to be misled into assuming that no messages matched the search.

Understood.  But as I said in my previous response, it would
significantly go against WG consensus to change this, and there are
pitfalls in trying to get the change right anyway.

Barry

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