Re: Some Ideas I would like to Bounce off ya

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:45:16 EST, Hector Santos said:
> Valdis,
>
> Did you read the entire message or did you stop at the very first "Gotcha"
> and say "Ah Ha!"
Which part of "Thou shalt not screw with the format of MX records" do you not
understand?

> By proposal a special  MX domain name format which includes this
> information, and even possibly using the preference with a hi/lo 2 word
> concept.  Lo word having the preference value, the hi word having bit map
> flags.
Looks like a proposal for a new MX format.  This won't fly, propose a
new RR instead.

I'm sorry, but when the third paragraph already involves what appears to be
a complete and total non-starter, and the next 6 or 7 paragraphs explain
how this is better than the TXT method that is being used precisely because
paragraph 3 *is* a non-starter, explain why I should go read another 20
paragraphs in the hope that even starting with a totally broken idea, there's
something salvagable there?

I don't see any new and novel "If this information was conveyed somehow, we
could then do XYZ".  Maybe there's one lurking in there, but all I can see is
"we have stuff we're thinkig of putting in a TXT record because it's not a good
idea to put it in the MX record.  Let's put it in the MX instead".

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