From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <011d01c34730$9f27e4e0$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] pop3 before smtp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:14:24 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f4771960-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Yeah, SMTP is a misnomer. nah, i think strict SMTP is fine. it's 822 that really screws things up. ESMTP is a debacle and the MINE (sic) field is a disaster. i asked gettys about some of it, 'cos by the end of the 4th MINE (sic) doc [some 150 a4 pages] i was beginning to lose it. like francis ford coppola said about the making of apocalypse now: we had too much money, too much equipment and slowly, but surely we went insane just like the war.