🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:42:52 +0100, Alan Staniforth <alan@apollonia.org> wrote:
>In article <35337029.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>,
>malcolm@demon.net (Malcolm Muir) wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:42:58 +0100, Anthony Naggs <amn@ubik.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> >After much consideration Clive D.W. Feather decided to share these wise
>> >words:
>> >>In article <892478581snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>, Claire <cl$9804$v@siberia
>> >>.demon.co.uk> writes
>> >>>Now that it's been rolled out, it had developed an unpleasant
>> >>>habit of responding to an RSET with 503, which AFAICS is
>> >>>in breach of RFC 821.
>> >>
>> >>Could you please post an example transaction ?
>> >
>> >Since her posting Claire has posted more detail to the Demon Testers
>> >mailing list.
>> 
>> Indeed, we believe we have found the cause (but not the fix) for
>> this problem. Thanks
>
>If any more is needed I sent a very detailed log of exactly this fault to 
>mail-test@demon.net on 8/4/98.

Indeed, we have a number of reports of the exact circumstances in
which this problem manifests itself.

Why this was not noticed when the machine was in beta test remains
a mystery since the same problem was in the code used at that time.

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