RE: MTA mark draft
"Gordon Fecyk - Home" <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:55:47 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.asrg.rmx |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> get around the underscore problem --- some people don't like the > underscore in _asrg_rmx / _smtp-client / _spf. The underscore exists and it's used. Just not for host names. The most visible use is in RFC 2872, adopted by Microsoft for distributing Windows 2000 authentication information in DNS. It's there, and DNS servers understand it. And other non-host-name characters get used for DNS records too, like in RFC 2317. I don't know of a DNS implementation pre-BIND 4 that chokes on them. -- PGP key (0x0AFA039E): <http://www.pan-am.ca/[email protected]> What's a PGP Key? See <http://www.pan-am.ca/free.html> GOD BLESS AMER, er, THE INTERNET. <http://vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=401&page=4>