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Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Wed, 26 July 2000 10:58 UTC

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At 02:16 PM 7/25/00 -0700, Lee Thompson wrote:
>The SMTP/Message Format system currently in use is a mess.  We have nearly 20
>years of standard drift and those standards are vague in some areas.   For
>better or for worse the internet is now a commercial environment which means
>interoperability and reliability are the key factors.

There is truth in what you observe, but it does not apply to CRLF.  If 
anything the standards drift is due to constantly making local changes to 
accept non-conforming behavior.  It is the norm for email.

Imagine if folks had taken that approach for TCP...

d/

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