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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:17 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:50:25 EDT, Barry Shein said: > > > > So this is (yet another) fishing expidition -- as MIME types are a handy > > > list, if any of those strings were present in a header, as in > > > [email protected], would any well-known thingee choke? > > As a practical matter, 'bar.mime-type' had better be a proper DNS entry, or > a lot of places that do a "is the address at least putatively returnable?" > test (which *should* be essentially 100% - does anybody *not* check this?), > they will find it won't go very far. It's got some interesting implications if it's: domain.exe ... 'did you mean to go to domain.exe or execute domain.exe or display domain.pdf ?' the UI folks will have a headache with that I bet... I could see a rule set (simplified) like: 1) if -f domain.exe && -x domain.exe ; then exec(domain.exe) 2) if ! -f domain.exe ; then openlocation(domain.exe) that would be fun in the world of site-finder, eh? I wonder what word or excel or '$application' does with a random blob of html foo shoved down it's throat?? Is it still the case that folks thinking about site-finder believe 'all the world is a web-browser' ??? Seriously? > > As a second practical matter, I suspect that all the places that have already > decided that '*.biz' is a cesspool will be even more dubious accepting mail > from '[email protected]xxxxxxxxx'. > and here I took the 'bar.mime-type' to be: domain.exe or domain.mp3 or domain.pdf ... Barry, which do you mean? (or which did Eric mean)
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