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> If an ancient, 20 year old email client, tries to send a message – it finds the MX record and sends the message just like normal.

Maintaining back-compatibility: good!

> From there, the email services which implement MX2 would publish a public date, on which all messages sent to them by the old MX record, will be automatically sent to Junk.

And the idiocy kicks in two sentences later: IPv4/IPv6 anyone?



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