From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: OT Length of Header-Lines?
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:20:21 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v1tlnlxx66z.fsf@peoria.mt.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufak91i2e4d.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu>
Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> writes:
> >>>>> "KK" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:
>
> KK> On the one hand, this is an utterly stupid question to have to
> KK> answer. Any "new" mail-serving program which imposes such severe line
> KK> length limits of that sort has, in the very first analysis, violated
> KK> the Robustness Principle.
>
> I'll add for funnies that, as the owner of this list, I see bunches of fun
> bounces due to this. Folks at cs.cmu.edu, what crappy mailer are you
> running there that _bounces_ mail if a header is over 510 characters?
I asked around about this, and this is the answer I got:
: The answer, of course, is "one that we invented ourselves"
A second response replied:
: the answer is most definitely NOT 'one we invented ourselves'
: the answer is MMDF...
I'll see if I can't get facilities to look into it again.
--
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-30 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-29 20:13 Robert Epprecht
1998-10-29 21:06 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-10-30 8:24 ` Robert Epprecht
1998-10-30 16:44 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1998-10-30 18:20 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
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