Re: RE: New SMTP response codes

John C Klensin <klensin@mci.net> Fri, 16 May 1997 02:22 UTC

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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 22:05:20 -0400
From: John C Klensin <klensin@mci.net>
Subject: Re: RE: New SMTP response codes
To: "Jeff Stephenson (Exchange)" <jeffstep@exchange.microsoft.com>
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On Wed, 14 May 1997 09:46:39 -0700 "Jeff Stephenson 
(Exchange)" <jeffstep@Exchange.Microsoft.com> wrote:

> John - would this be appropriate to include in your 821bis draft, or is
> it out of scope?  If it can't go into 821bis, what would be the best way
> to proceed?

I fear that  it is out of scope, but would happily accept 
direction from Chris/Harald/Keith to the contrary.  The 
biggest problem is that we can't make a normative reference 
to the extended code idea from 821bis without creating a 
queuing situation.

     john