Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
Hey All,
Err...I don't mean to nag or anything, but hasn't this thread
gotten a little out of hand? I mean, it's like ten days running now, it
no longer bears any semblence to the subject, and there has been flaming
and sarcasm left and right. It doesn't do the debian user community any
good to have many of its good people wrapped up in a pointless thread.
Just my $0.02.
Steve
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, John Galt wrote:
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> from sunsite's rfc-index
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> 196 Watson, R. "Mail Box Protocol" (Not online) 1971 July 20; 4 p.
> (Obsoleted by RFC 221)
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>
> 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.
> >
> >
> > - --
> > Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
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