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Re: considering XML

2004-01-21 18:58:11
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Justin Mason wrote:

That's the case, alright; xmlns would require HTTP invocations for a
validating XML parser if I recall correctly.  It's not a good plan IMO.

And thus giving any spammer who wants to nullify SPF a perfect route to do
so - now it's no longer distributed, all they have to do is DDoS the
server that hosts the DTD.  Boom, all of SPF stops working, causes mail
servers to time out, admins to get paged, and code to get ripped out with
the accompanying statements of "what a piece of worthless garbage".

-- 
Tim Wilde
twilde(_at_)dyndns(_dot_)org
Systems Administrator
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
http://www.dyndns.org/

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