Re: cs.utexas.edu discrimination charged

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From: Dave Ratcliffe
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 00:00

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In article <45v4o1$j26@news.orst.edu>, stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
- 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.

That's the way I was viewing it since there had been no mention of prior
problems further back on the mail chain. And I neglected to check on the
SMTP specs as well. Thanks for looking it up John. 

-- 
Dave Ratcliffe                      dave@frackit.com
Harrisburg, Pa.

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