GNU bug report logs - #51733
27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better

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Message #260 received at 51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:25:34 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I don't understand this stubborn opposition to provide better, more
> general APIs to our users.

I'm for making functions with well-defined interfaces.

> textsec.el is not an application, it is infrastructure applications
> should use to provide user-level features.  So any application-level
> decisions, like at what level to detect suspicious addresses, is not
> textsec's bloody business to make!

I don't understand what you mean.  It's just because the textsec
functions are well-defined that application-level packages can use it
reliably.  textsec isn't making any decisions about levels -- that's up
to the callers.

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