Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
from sunsite's rfc-index
196 Watson, R. "Mail Box Protocol" (Not online) 1971 July 20; 4 p.
(Obsoleted by RFC 221)
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
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> On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:36:40 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote:
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> >But the emailing standard predates both FTP and HTTP, thus the situation
> >existed once.
>
> Excuse me? Which emailing standard? AFAICT by the RFCs email emerged
> as its own protocol around the 700s. Meanwhile FTP was being discussed back
> in the 400s more than 7 years previous to 780, "Mail Transfer Protocol" and
> 8 years before "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol." To me, FTP predates
> SMTP/POP/IMAP by quite a bit, esp. when most of the eariler mail documents
> refer to moving mail via FTP.
>
> >and the situation also existed once wherein joe wasn't an option, thus vi
> >was required learning.
>
> Once, but not *now*.
>
> >The DoS attack is going to exist no matter what is done to stop it. It is
> >an artifact of TCP/IP networking: the only thing that can truly not be
> >denied is what isn't there. Shutting down a part of an existing protocol
> >because of it is ludicrous at best. The professionals that keep the
> >internet running, for the most part, know this, thus the minor fact that
> >large attachments to email exist to this date.
>
> Much to the begrudgement of every postmaster I've ever spoken to.
>
>
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