--On Friday, March 27, 2009 4:17 PM -0400 Dave O'Neill
<[email protected]> wrote:
As seen at YAPC::NA::2008, "Email Hates the Living":
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7054401183589794595
It's a good overview of how broken the RFCs are, with an extra helping
of zombie humour on top. Worth a look if you have an hour to spare,
though some of the slides are a bit blurry.
Amusing and depressing. Definitely worth watching.
So is there no hope? It seems like all the calls for a "new SMTP" to combat
spam are pointless if the underlying message format is so badly
underspecified. (I've never bought the call for SMTP fixes anyway. I've
always felt the problem was in sloppy acceptance of standards violations,
and now I learn that it's impossible to do otherwise.)
Is it feasible to write a new message standard to replace 2822, with all
MUSTS, and something like HTML's doctype strict to declare that the message
either meets the standard or is rejectable?
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