On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:01:40 PDT, Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Interesting... seems to be a message generated by an intermediary
> that used a heuristic to vector the message and effect a
> transformation... Unfortunately, that transformation was performed
> without proper knowledge of the semantics of the application
> protocol, incurring unintended and undesireable results.
>
> Maybe if we standardized the heuristics and the means of vectoring,
> the transformation engines would magically behave in a more
> responsible manner... or maybe it would just encourage the deployment
> of transformation engines.
Umm.. Mark? The heuristics *are* standardized.
It's called "Thou shalt send this crap to the SMTP MAIL FROM: address".
Of course, if people manage to botch something THAT simple and
well understood, how will we ever deploy a working OPES?
/Valdis
