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27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:28:50 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com,  51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

You are being unreasonably stubborn here.

I give up.

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