On 2017-08-01 22:08, Jim Fenton wrote:
> On 8/1/17 1:02 PM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>> On 01/08/2017 19:41, Jim Fenton wrote:
>>> On 8/1/17 2:11 AM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>>>> Jim,
>>>> I would like to disagree:
>>>>
>>>>> On 1 Aug 2017, at 00:02, Jim Fenton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> A better approach IMO would be to suggest the use of separate email
>>>>> addresses (e.g., [email protected] or [email protected] for
>>>>> a service provider) in order to distinguish reports from other traffic.
>>>> This is already possible.
>>> Yes, and for this reason the requirement to add new message header
>>> fields seems gratuitous. I expect reports will be separated by
>>> destination address rather than using IMAP filters, the latter being
>>> given as the motivation for the new header fields.
>> Not really, abusing Subject to encode this information is a hack. So
>> these header fields are useful even only if one type of report goes to a
>> particular email mailbox, because it is easy to separate specific
>> reports by domains, etc. programmatically, for example using IMAP.
> 
> I don't think I was suggesting anything involving Subject. There's
> already some of this in Section 5.3, and I'm not crazy about doing that
> either, especially since it's only a SHOULD (so the report recipient
> can't really depend on it being formatted that way).

On the contrary. A SHOULD basically means you follow the spec unless
you have a good reason not to do so.

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