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Useless bits of SMTP (was Re: 8-bit news)

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From: David J. Fiander
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:56
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According to avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov):
>>SMTP is bloated?  I'll trade you SOML, SEND, SAML, and TURN for an
>>eight-bit negotiation mechanism.  We'll still slim it by a command or two.
>
>It already has features nobody uses (VRFY, EXPN, SOML, SAML, TURN)
>and simply useless (HELO). Most implementations simply don't know
>what to do with all that (i know because i had a pleasure of
>implementing SMTP stuff).

You've obviously never had to debug a mail connection
remotely.  I use VRFY and EXPN regularly.  I'm willing to give
up SOML, SEND, and SAML, but I think that TURN could become more
useful, especially now that the Internet is so wide that it can
take a minute or two to form the initial connection.
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From: davidf@golem.waterloo.on.ca (David J. Fiander)
Subject: Useless bits of SMTP (was Re: 8-bit news)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:56:06 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Dec16.215606.26755@golem.waterloo.on.ca>
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