Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-crocker-email-deliveredto-05.txt

On 8/4/2021 8:41 PM, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Dave Crocker  <[email protected]> said:
>> This has changes intended to cover the existing use of the field.
>>
>> For covenience, consider:
>>
>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-crocker-email-deliveredto-05
> 
> It still is missing the point. The thing in the Delivered-To line is a
> token, which usually is not an address or a mailbox, even though it
> might look like one. The draft refers to "include each address
> that led to the final delivery" or "Delivering the same message more
> than once to the same address" or "The header field contains information about the
> individual mailbox" but the thing in the header isn't an address or a mailbox.
> 
> I still don't see any reason to claim this is an experiment. We have
> 20 years of experience with Delivered-To. It seenm unlikely that
> anyone plans to change the way they do or do not add the header at
> this point.
> 
> Once again, a survey of existing practice could be useful.


Once again, tThe one missing the point is you, John.

You continue to offer firm conclusions, without engaging in the detailed 
substance.

Send actual data.

The revisions cover the data available so far, which do not reflect your 
'usually'.

Data.  Actually examples, showing existing practice.

d/

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net