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Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-klyne-msghdr-registry-02.txt

2002-01-31 13:48:56

At 03:23 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
What it does is to encourage people to use ordinary-looking field names
for poorly designed fields which don't have the benefit of public review.

this sounds like a variant of the cliche about security through obscurity.

in this case it would be something like "email header protection through naming ugliness."

sigh.

d/


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