Re: [anti-spam-wg@localhost] it could be sooo easy - Solution to Spam

[Markus Stumpf <]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:05:45PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> You haven't said what the semicolon and the part after it are for.
> (Well, I'm assuming that you aren't including them just to spell "yes"
> unusually. :-)  To quote one of my favourite stories, "I can make an
> excellent guess.  I hate guessing.".

Sorry ... you are of course right. The part after the semicolon should
be a URI, e.g.
    
	    
	    
		- abuse contact per email
    http://www.space.net/abuse/rbl/	- web form to send a message to
					  abuse (in case email is blocked
					  or the like)
however the semicolon and the URI should be optional but desired.

There is RFC 1464 "Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary
String Attributes" which addresses storing of key=value pairs. However
it does only define
    <owner> <class> <ttl> TXT "<attribute name>=<attribute value>"
and seems not to allow more than one pair of information to be stored
in on TXT record. So the
    <attribute name>=<attribute value>
would be
    MTA=yes	or	MTA=no
and the value may have an optional contact-URI seperated with a semicolon.
   
> This actually sounds like a not-too-bad idea.  As you point out, it has
> problems, but so do all solutions, and the patient is sick enough that
> we'll probably have to amputate _something_ no matter what we do.
> 
> May I repeat it elselist?

Surely, feel free to spread the word ;-)
I also thought about writing a IETF draft but I yet have to learn about
the procedure ...

	\Maex

P.S. I remember a X game I compiled and played about 15 years ago, where you
     had to move blocks around that changed colors and symbols and you had to
     clear the board of all blocks ... are you the same der Mouse who
     wrote the game and who was rather active in comp.windows.x ? If so it's
     nice to meet you again ;-)

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