From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <331a35e5f9d4b8aabb95e6e7c3e3675e@caldo.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] spam rejection after reception does have limits From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <00fd01c3855d$62e91100$b9844051@insultant.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:08:45 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5206e5ce-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > everyone has said about the limitations of import /mail/box but I don't > see the current SMTP-based systems lasting a whole lot longer ... i used to think that about XML then again, there aren't whole conferences about SMTP so you might be lucky. more seriously, what's more likely is that Microsoft (say) will suddenly leap in to point out that SMTP clearly doesn't work and therefore everyone ought to use such-and-such a scheme that, curiously, works best with their servers everywhere and where the protocol is lightly documented and hard to match.