Policy-Mandated Labels Such as "Adv:" in Email Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best
RFC 4096, “Policy-Mandated Labels Such as "Adv:" in Email Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best”, is an Informational document published in May 2005 by C. Malamud. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This memo discusses policies that require certain labels to be inserted in the "Subject:" header of a mail message. Such policies are difficult to specify accurately while remaining compliant with key RFCs and are likely to be ineffective at best. This memo discusses an alternate, \%standards-compliant approach that is significantly simpler to specify and is somewhat less likely to be ineffective. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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- RFC 4098 Terminology for Benchmarking BGP Device Convergence in the Control Plane
- RFC 4094 Analysis of Existing Quality-of-Service Signaling Protocols
- RFC 4093 Problem Statement: Mobile IPv4 Traversal of Virtual Private Network Gateways
- RFC 4092 Usage of the Session Description Protocol Alternative Network Address Types Semantics in the Session Initiation Protocol
- RFC 4101 Writing Protocol Models
- RFC 4091 The Alternative Network Address Types Semantics for the Session Description Protocol Grouping Framework