Re: Comments on draft-melnikov-sieve-external-lists-02.txt

(thanks for kicking this off: the timing is fortuitous since i planned to start implementing something similar soon. i'll start a new threads for any longer comments.) 

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Ned 
Freed<ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com> wrote:
> > Barry Leiba wrote:
<snip>

> > >Section 2.3 needs to make it
> > >clear that whether an external list can do this or not depends upon
> > >the list, and it needs to say what happens if it can't (ignore, or
> > >throw runtime error seem to be the two sensible choices, and I think I
> > >prefer the latter).
> > >
> > >
> > We should discuss this in Stockholm (and on the mailing list). I wasn't
> > thinking about being able to use the header test without being able to
> > reference the same list in redirect.
> Well, I can sort of see an argument that you might expect to be able to
> reference any list that you used in an _address_ test in redirect, but
> header? Who says the lists we'll be checking headers against are of
> addresses or anything that correlates to addresses?
>
> And in fact there are even lists of addresses (hashed lists are the obvious
> example) where you won't be able to reference them in redirect.
>
> The opposite is going to be true as well. There are plenty of use cases for
> a list you want people to be able to redirect to but not test the content of
> in any way.
+1

- robert

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