On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:50:25 EDT, Barry Shein said:
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?
As a practical matter, 'bar.mime-type' had better be a proper DNS entry, or a lot of places that do a "is the address at least putatively returnable?" test (which *should* be essentially 100% - does anybody *not* check this?), they will find it won't go very far. As a second practical matter, I suspect that all the places that have already decided that '*.biz' is a cesspool will be even more dubious accepting mail from 'foo@bar.application.octet-stream'. I'm still trying to figure out if this was for real, or if it was intended to be posted 2 weeks ago and ICANN bureaucracy delayed it... ;)