From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 13:19:46 CDT
Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net):
> John, this is getting ridiculous.
Yes, it is. Algol and snail mail and artificial deadlines you expect
others to keep but not yourself. Some odd expectation that the .spammers
TLD is in the process of being created.
> First you say that we must be precise
> and formal in our usage of the word, employing only a very narrow meaning
> that even you don't use consistently.
I went back and read where you think I referred to
"joe@bite.me.you.spammers" as an address, and the only other reference I
find to that address is when I say "it is not an address for me."
Then I said it may be a string that meets the formal syntactic definition
of address, but that does not mean it is an address in the normal meaning
of the word. And I was quite specific in saying "formal syntactic
definition" just so that you wouldn't get confused about which meaning of
the word I was using, yet you got confused anyway.
> If I write "1447 Ave. C South", "Saskatoon, Sask., Canada" on an envelope,
News is not snail mail.
I notice you are no longer harping on the deadline, which is good. I also
notice you are missing the important point, which is the note which allows
an injecting agent to violate the 8.2.2 MUST NOT of step 5, which is bad.
I also notice you have not yet explained why your followup agent "cares"
about what is in the From content, which is the crux of the issue around
why this standard should care.