Matt Kettler wrote:
Philip Prindeville wrote:
Matt Kettler wrote:
Philip Prindeville wrote:
Depends on whether you equate bare domains with URL's, I suppose.
If MUA's equate them with URLs, spammers will use this, and
SpamAssassin will use it.
There is only so much braindeath in UA's that you can bend the rules
for. Clearly, this involves breaking them.
Erm.. What rule does this actually break? Is there a rule in an RFC
somewhere specifying you MUST not interpret bare domains as URIs in
text emails?
There is an RFC that defines what a URL looks like. A bare domain
doesn't cut it.
You want to forbid bare domains in email? Go ahead. You can forbid
anything you like.
But don't call it a test for URL's, since it's clearly not.
Besides, when this "braindeath" is more the norm than the exception,
it's a de facto standard. Particularly in the absence of any rules
against it.
Yeah, I'll talk to the Outlook folks, and file a bug against
Thunderbird... (I think the latter only does it to be compatible with
the former...)
*EVERY* graphical MUA I've used in the past 10 years does this.
Thunderbird, Outlook, Groupwise, Eudora, they all do it. I'm sure
there are MUAs that don't, but there's an awful lot that do. Most
webmails seem to do it too. Outlook web access, Comcast and Yahoo all
do, but I'll concede that Verizon's webmail doesn't.
