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[spf-discuss] Re: Is this SPF record valid

2006-05-04 16:13:24
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Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:25:02PM -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
I can see a LAX mode feature where in case of a PERMERROR, it might
try concatenating substrings *with* a space as one of the heuristics
to guess what was meant (after sending a DSN with the diagnostic, of
course).

By allowing these kind of errors to exist in stead of being repaired,
I'm affraid eventually we end up in a situation where this relaxed
mode is no longer a workaround but rather a defacto standard.

I must concur.  Remember what happened to HTML during the browser wars.  
Being lax now will almost certainly haunt us later.

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