[101456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP addresses in <>
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Jan 4 17:43:22 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:41:55 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@ca.afilias.info>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480801041002o724260f3w2a722136e5b9371a@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> I completely agree. If it weren't for that philosophy, we wouldn't
> have an email problem at all.
> Because....we wouldn't have e-mail? Consider the pain of getting
> worldwide interoperability for a "notmail" system that insisted on
> strict validation...
consider the pain of getting worldwide interoperabilty for a "notmail"
system where following the specs was thrown to the wind.
randy
