Re: cs.utexas.edu discrimination charged

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From: John Stanley
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 00:00

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In article <DGKC1I.6y@frackit.com>, Dave Ratcliffe <dave@frackit.com> wrote:
>
>BTW Catherine to my knowledge there is no requirement (and I just
>checked the RFC to make sure) for a bounce message to be generated if
>delivery isn't possible. 

RFC 1123 Para. 5.3.3 deals with SMTP agents, and says "MUST" with regard
to notification of delivery failure.

Howerver, if you look at it as the message was delivered to the gateway
and the gateway dropped it, then this paragraph does not apply.

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From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
Subject: Re: cs.utexas.edu discrimination charged
Date: 1995/10/17
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