RE: DEPLOY: Permitting '-all' to be used immediately represents aflag day.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-mxcomp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-ietf-mxcomp@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Woodhouse
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:29 AM
> To: Graham Murray
> Cc: ietf-mxcomp@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: DEPLOY: Permitting '-all' to be used immediately
> represents
> aflag day.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 11:42 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
> >  Do not forget that as far as the sender is concerned, the
> > site doing the forwarding is the intended recipient of the
> email. So,
> > it is the recipient's problem and responsibility to accept mail sent
> > to addresses which are then forwarded to them.
>
> That may be true, but it is the responsibility of this
> working group to
> propose a solution for this newly-imposed problem, and ensure that any
> necessary changes to current practice become widespread -- _before_
> starting to rely on assumptions about it.

There *is* a solution.  If your domain does forwarding through SMTP servers that do not yet have the
mechanism(s) necessary to work, then publish with ~all.  For those domains who don't have/allow any
forwarding and/or the known allowed forwarders have the necessary mechanisms in place, -all is
perfectly acceptable.

>
> I am not suggesting that '-all' should be permanently
> forbidden, merely
> that it must be forbidden in the first release of the new
> specification,
> and must remain so until such time as the proposed solutions are
> widespread.

I have to 100% disagree:
If the solution does not start working for at least *some* in the short term, then there will be
reduced/zero perceived benefit which discourages buy-in from undecided fence sitters.

>
> --
> dwmw2
>


Terry Fielder
Manager Software Development and Deployment
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
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