Re: Comments on Malformed Message BCP draft

Keith Moore wrote:

>> This gives more weight to the idea to not tolerate standards violations. 
>> Relaxing on standards makes it more difficult to use a delta in MUA 
>> compliance behavior as good or bad.

> Please don't propose to penalize users for switching MUAs.   

I don't think I was Keith.  I am firm believer all transactions should 
be treated equally when it comes to following standards with a "wait 
for someone to complain" exception.    I was pointing out dealing with 
compromising user issues is a different problem with a different set 
of solutions and I believe relaxing standards does not help with the 
problem.  So even if you wanted to use a negative MUA behavior change 
red-flag as part of a local policy compromised user monitor, you 
couldn't.

> It's difficult enough for people to do as it is, and that is part of why 
> MUAs are so dysfunctional and have evolved so little over the past 10+ years.   

For offline MUAs, I generally agree, at least for the things we often 
are concern about. For Online MUAs, there are improvements, including 
support for List-IDs as done with gmail.com

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HLS