Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble

[Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>]

I was asked to forward this to the list by Eric:

> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:27:40 -0700
> From: Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw () abenaki wabanaki net>
> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213)
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Problems sending mail from .mumble
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Howdy folks,
>
> This isn't as much fun as tracking ships, but at Friday's meeting of 
> ICANN's GNSO Council (think "Hairspray") and ICANN staff on the process 
> for new gTLDs, the issue of file suffixes as proposed strings came up.
>
> Obviously the people who thought of wildcards (Sitefinder) didn't think 
> through the full joy of the consequences.
>
> So this is (yet another) fishing expidition -- as MIME types are a handy 
> list, if any of those strings were present in a header, as in 
> mail-from-foo () bar MIME-TYPE, would any well-known thingee choke?
>
> Clues on a clue-by-four.
>
> I'll summarize replies off-list (unless requested otherwise) and Thanks 
> in Advance,
> Eric

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        -Barry Shein

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