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Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 10:35:46 CST
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> Bill Davidsen has had some problems posting to this list, and I don't
> think it was just the recent outage at Landfield. Could Kent please look
> into this.
>
> In the meantime, here are three articles that he sent to me directly:
> >I think what we are really talking about is "known not to be valid," but
> >that path led to vast arguments. A server can have a list of invalid
> >values, it just can't validate an arbitrary value. I still like MAY
> >reject if the address is offensive.
> >
> >Leave it, the battle is over...
>
>
> Hmmmmmmmm! Does that mean he accepts a change, or that he does not accept
> a change?
I'd love to see a change to what I said, but unless the difference of
opinions has died down, I don't think we will agree on anything much
better. People should not be allowed to forge the ISP (or company,
university) administrative address, for instance.
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