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Re: POP3 protocol question

Steve Dorner <sdorner@qualcomm.com> Mon, 10 October 1994 22:24 UTC

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:58:05 -0500
To: Chris Newman <chrisn+@cmu.edu>
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From: Steve Dorner <sdorner@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: POP3 protocol question
Cc: POP3 IETF Mailing List <ietf-pop3+@andrew.cmu.edu>, Jerome Chan <yjc@po.cwru.edu>

At 11:50 AM 10/10/94, Chris Newman wrote:
>RFC-821 (SMTP) allows one to _send_ mail.  POP3 has no reason to
>duplicate this functionality.

That's debatable.  I think overall I agree with Chris, but a significant
number of people do not.

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