[Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Tue May 4 11:56:49 EDT 2004


At 11:40 AM -0400 2004/05/04, Carson Gaspar quoted JC Lawrence:

>>  Reliably distinguishing is non-trivial.
>
>  Incorrect. Parsing RFC-standard DSNs is trivial. I wrote the code to
>  do it back in the old days when I ran the firewalls mailing list.

	I think JC was talking about the broader subject, more than just 
the standard DSNs.

	I agree with you that we could do a better job of parsing and 
handling the standard DSNs, but I agree with JC that this is a very 
tough task to do beyond the standard DSNs.

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