Charles Lindsey wrote:
However, if you want to see what the actual authors of RFC 2606
intended it to mean, you might care to look at
<http://purl.net/net/msgid/aacu37$clc$1(_at_)krell(_dot_)zikzak(_dot_)de>,
I see no "authors" (N.B. your plural).
which not only confirms its appropriateness within Netnews,
There is also nothing there which says exactly what use is referred to by
"the kind of use you are talking about", or indeed any reference to what
message that might have been in response to.
No, that is exactly what RFC 3696 does _not_ say. You have already
presumed to understand what the authors of RFC 2606 intended to say,
and been proved wrong. Do you want me to write to John Klensin and ask
him what he really meant in RFC 3696?
Knock yourself out. Go ahead and ask him if he thinks hard-coding
recognition of ".invalid" is a good idea or not.