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Re: [mail-vet-discuss] Re: Auth-Results issues? #8 secton 5.1

2006-04-28 17:55:34
On 2006-04-27 20:14, Tony Hansen wrote:

Legacy MUAs

    An important factor to the usefulness of this proposal is adoption
    by Mail User Agents (MUAs) of some method by which the information
    the headers contain is relayed to users to indicate the validity
    of the message.  The lag time between publication of this standard
    and widespread adoption by MUAs will require careful consideration
    by those making use of authentication methods which relay their
    results using this header.

I think this is getting muddier rather than clearer. The 1st sentence is
fine. But what does the 2nd sentence really mean? It provides no real
guidance whatsoever other than saying "be careful".

Anyone else want to speak up on this issue? I think Murray and I are
hitting an impasse.

This is primarily a warning to implementers, right? So I think the first sentence may be sufficient.

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J.D. Falk, Anti-Spam Product Manager
Yahoo! Communications Platform Team
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