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Re: Technical requiremenets for Usenet messages

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> I have only read in some IETF document (could have been an RFC, maybe even
> on the Standards Track) that using the “invalid” TLD in some address
> header fields would be allowed.  I have forgotten which one (RFC 2606 is 
> _not_ it), and I have not found it again yet.  Hints are appreciated.

Found it:

,-<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5537#section-3.4>
| 
| 3.4.  Duties of a Posting Agent
| 
| […]
| Contrary to [RFC5322], which implies that the mailbox or mailboxes in
| the From header field should be that of the poster or posters, a
| poster who does not, for whatever reason, wish to use his own mailbox
| MAY use any mailbox ending in the top-level domain ".invalid"
| [RFC2606].

That, too, is part of a Proposed Standard.  I find that unfortunate.

However, it *also* does not mean that address munging would have to be 
accepted, that it would not be anti-social behavior anymore.  It is only a 
“MAY” (see RFC 2119 for the definition), and RFCs regard only the technical 
side of communication.  There is also a social side to it: “Internet is the 
thing with cables; Usenet is the thing with *people*”.  The author of 

<http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/>

has confirmed publicly recently that he is still standing by those 
statements, and there are not only a few people who agree with that.  
(Especially as spam filters are getting better.)

The “invalid” TLD only *can* make it easier to recognize pseudo-addresses 
(not everyone’s native language is English, not everyone knows about 
Internet protocols, not everyone sees the automatically chosen receiver 
field values); up to the point of filtering out all the offending messages 
in the first place (which I still do).

-- 
PointedEars
Zend Certified PHP Engineer
Twitter: @PointedEars2
Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

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