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Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

2010-02-05 19:49:01


On 2/5/2010 5:34 PM, Steve Atkins wrote:
On Feb 5, 2010, at 5:13 PM, John Levine wrote:
What's wrong with a SRV record?  Then we can skip the moaning and groaning
from the DNS crowd about another overloaded TXT record.

+1. A TXT record is seldom the right design choice, despite the trail of badly
designed protocols that attempted to argue otherwise.

The recent trend towards using an _underscore.domain model has provided a scalable solution to the problem problem with TXT records, namely ambiguity.


However...

The right hand side of a SRV record is a hostname, not an email address.

right.

If all that's needed is a one-bit "i support the standard reporting address", that doesn't need an SRV, A, or MX. If what's needed is an email address then that doesn't need any of those, either.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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