The charter calls for both a taxonomy of existing methods as
well as an evaluation of those methods. It would seem that both efforts
would be served by documentation of the various extended headers in use
today. Collecting information about the headers used today would also be
critical to any effort such as the one that you propose to make tools
that rely on header extensions more interoperable.
Can you document one or more of the sets of extended headers
used today? If so, I'd love to see it.
bob wyman
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From: asrg-admin(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org [mailto:asrg-admin(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On
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Clifton Royston
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 4:06 PM
To: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: [Asrg] Standardization of RFC headers for email content
analysis?
I just thought I'd throw this out there, as I've quickly skimmed the
archives and haven't seen any discussion of this yet:
Would anyone consider it worthwhile for this group to put some focus
on making existing email content analysis/filter tools (in particular
anti-spam software) more interoperable?
I suggest a useful step in that direction to be defining a standard
for how they should utilize mail headers to announce the results of
their analysis. Right now it seems that every program uses a different
set of made up X-Headers in a different and incompatible way. (Well,
except for ours, which uses "Comments:" headers in a different and
incompatible way.)
This is very limited in scope relative to the "big picture" issues
this group seems to be chartered to discuss, but I think it would be
very helpful to improve interoperability, effectiveness, and ease of
engineering solutions in the near term.
-- Clifton
P.S. Hi, Chris!
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