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Re: RSET scope issue

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> Tue, 15 August 2000 19:56 UTC

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To: Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards <drums@cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: RSET scope issue
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In-Reply-To: Philip Hazel's message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:03:10 +0100 (BST)"
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:56:26 -0700
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Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> The first sentence in effect makes the point about resetting the
> transaction rather than the connection, but this could be made clearer.
> (The wording of the first sentence is also a bit odd - a command doesn't
> usually "specify", and the use of the future tense reads oddly.) Here is
> a minor revision:

>    This command causes the current mail transaction to be aborted. It 
>    resets the state to what it was at the beginning of the transaction. 
>    The state of the connection itself is not affected. Any stored sender 
>    .... etc.

I support this change as well.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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