Re: Keywords for "SMTP Service Extension for Content Negotiation"

My apologies, I intended to edit the cc list but neglected to do so.

				Ned

> Private note since this is now entirely off topic...

> > > I think this is a fine piece of theoretical analysis which unfortunately has no
> > > applicability to the real world. In the real world directory/database systems
> > > that let sites provide Internet-wide access to information about their users do
> > > not deploy.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure why this is the case, and indeed I'm fairly sure that there is no
> > > good reason for it, but a vast tract of experience tells me it for-sure is the
> > > case. (Now is not the time to get into whys in more detail.)

> > I'll just add 2 words to the "why" and leave it at that:

> > "datamining" "spammers".

> This is the opposite of an explanation, I'm afraid. Techniques for protecting
> against datamining are well known and widely implemented. In fact it is almost
> certainly easier to implement them in LDAP than in, say, a Web interface. Yet
> the former is rarely done, the latter pretty common.

> 				Ned