[101442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP addresses in <>
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Jan 4 11:44:46 2008
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:36:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080104111555.F43742@calis.blacksun.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Donald Stahl wrote:
>> RFC 1122 (Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers)
>> section 1.2.2 (Robustness Principle):
>>
>> "Be liberal in what you accept, and
>> conservative in what you send"
> Which has done nothing but allow countless Exchange server to HELO with
> exchange.local and other such idiocy, not to mention contribute to the spam
> problem.
Yep, which is why I suggest the modification:
You may be liberal in what you accept, and you should always be
conservative in what you send.
