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Re: [ot] Re: Courier traffic accounting



On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, martin f krafft wrote:
> 478181 kilobytes in a POP3 session... teach those folks that SMTP is
> not the simple mass transfer protocol.

Actually... as far as a lot of users are capable of thinking, that's exactly
what SMTP should stand for: "I attach this file and send it, could it be
simpler?".  And you know something?  I can see their point.

Which I suppose is a good reason why we should work towards ASMTP, a 8-bit
clean, mandatory endpoint authenticated SMTP (as in no backscatter,
something using mandatory header signing).  Beautiful! (it's just a dream,
there is no such thing.  Which is fine right now, as chances are someone
would have made it using XML).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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