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Article #5626Re: how well C/R works in real life
From: Alan Connor
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:43
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:43
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On comp.mail.misc, in <Pine.OSX.4.63.0506150620290.1077@pangtzu.panda.com>, "Mark Crispin" wrote: Why did you put: "Re" in front of a post that has an empty Reference header? Who do you think you are fooling with such a childish trick? > I got a message from a software developer in India asking a > technical question about the IMAP protocol (which I designed). Really? Nice work. > I responded. > > I was rewarded with a bounce and a C/R. No. You can't get a bounce AND a C/R. If the mail bounced, then it was undeliverable, and wouldn't have made it as far as any mail filter that incorporates a C/R stage. Are you SURE you designed the IMAP protocol? You don't seem to know you email works. > > I guess that he'll have to figure out the answer to his > question on his own. > That's really Scientific of you. I suppose that if you went to a website and received a 404 error, you would conclude that the HTTP protocol wasn't functional. As for how well C/Rs work in the real world? If they didn't work extraordinarily well, then all of you spammers and trolls wouldn't be so upset about them. DUH. Blather all day long on the Usenet, we couldn't care less. But what you can't do is get your garbage in our mailboxes. :-) AC -- alanconnor AT earthlink DOT net http://tinyurl.com/2t5kp Please visit my home page: http://angel.1jh.com./nanae/kooks/alanconnor.html
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