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Article #357Re: user-editable mail headers
From: Mark Crispin
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 1984 23:54
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 1984 23:54
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Whether or not software is "quality" or no depends upon whether
or not it does what it is intended to do. It is pretty silly to
expect Visicalc to execute PL/I programs.
The TOPS-20 mailer agrees to act as a mail bridge only, not as
a "mail gateway". It is the responsibility of the originating entity
to generate a message to the destination in correct format. Similar,
all entities should use the same standard for message headers. The
mailer (MMailr) knows nothing about RFC 822; its expertise is with
RFC 821 and other transport-level protocols. It is completely
separate from any message composition agent.
Any user agent which does not wish to take the responsibility
of composing a valid message for the destination agent should simply
not use a mail bridge. Most of the TOPS-20 mail bridges would be
happy to have less traffic; they provide it only as a courtesy and
not as a guaranteed service.
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