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Re: Unicode newsgroup name options

2003-03-02 17:03:50

what should happen is that the sender gets a message back that says:
Your message could not be delivered because it was illegally formatted.
You should replace your mail reader with one that works correctly.
See http://foo.bar/mail-readers.html for a list of broken mail readers.

Noone would want to configure his server that way when it blocks  
legitimate mail. And users of broken MUAs would still complain that  
``only this server is so picky'', even if they agree that it's right.

yup.  and like you say, it's a drawback to the robustness principle -
it encourages brokenness.

Keith