Re: Comments on Malformed Message BCP draft

Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It may be that the discussion suggests rejecting, in which case I suggest the
> document should clearly explain why, and what the implications of not doing so
> are, beyond "it makes some problems harder to diagnose".

It does not make sense to have a uniform policy for dealing with corrupt
messages. Some kinds of corruption are caused by common legitimate
software, in which case you will want to treat it leniently; others are
caused by malware or rare kinds of incompetence, in which case it makes
more sense to reject. You can only determine which is which based on
operational experience, and the least-worst response changes from time to
time.

Tony.
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