[103798] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Mon Apr 14 13:39:41 2008
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:21:18 -0400
From: "Christopher Morrow" <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Barry Shein" <bzs@world.std.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net
In-Reply-To: <31158.1208186276@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:17 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:50:25 EDT, Barry Shein said:
>
> > > So this is (yet another) fishing expidition -- as MIME types are a handy
> > > list, if any of those strings were present in a header, as in
> > > mail-from-foo@bar.MIME-TYPE, would any well-known thingee choke?
>
> As a practical matter, 'bar.mime-type' had better be a proper DNS entry, or
> a lot of places that do a "is the address at least putatively returnable?"
> test (which *should* be essentially 100% - does anybody *not* check this?),
> they will find it won't go very far.
It's got some interesting implications if it's: domain.exe ... 'did
you mean to go to domain.exe or execute domain.exe or display
domain.pdf ?' the UI folks will have a headache with that I bet... I
could see a rule set (simplified) like:
1) if -f domain.exe && -x domain.exe ; then exec(domain.exe)
2) if ! -f domain.exe ; then openlocation(domain.exe)
that would be fun in the world of site-finder, eh? I wonder what word
or excel or '$application' does with a random blob of html foo shoved
down it's throat??
Is it still the case that folks thinking about site-finder believe
'all the world is a web-browser' ??? Seriously?
>
> As a second practical matter, I suspect that all the places that have already
> decided that '*.biz' is a cesspool will be even more dubious accepting mail
> from 'foo@bar.application.octet-stream'.
>
and here I took the 'bar.mime-type' to be: domain.exe or domain.mp3 or
domain.pdf ... Barry, which do you mean? (or which did Eric mean)
