On Jun 2, 2010, at 10:55 AM, John R. Levine wrote: >> My guess is that the phrase "the domain encourages the recipient(s) to >> discard it" is intended to refer to a silent discard. > > I don't think any of us expected the recipient to send a notification. I > certainly didn't, since the assumption would be that the message was > probably from a hostile sender.
+1 Also, there's documented precedent within the IETF. RFC 863 has a clear definition: "A discard service simply throws away any data it receives." RFC 5321 (and 2821, and 821) applied that definition to email, with specifics for programmers: > 2.3.6. Buffer and State Table > > SMTP sessions are stateful, with both parties carefully maintaining a > common view of the current state. In this document, we model this > state by a virtual "buffer" and a "state table" on the server that > may be used by the client to, for example, "clear the buffer" or > "reset the state table", causing the information in the buffer to be > discarded and the state to be returned to some previous state. 5321 uses "discard" or "discarded" in other places, too. -- J.D. Falk <[email protected]> Return Path Inc _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
