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Re: quietly....


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:27:48 -0500

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:01:52 EST, Jay Ashworth said:
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From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:41:12 EST, Matthew Huff said:
SMTP is definitely not a p2p protocol in most corporate
environments.

Ahem. Please quit confusing "the protocol" with "that small segment of
the protocol we choose to allow/support on our network".

Ahem.

Please quit confusing "The Internet" with "my small edge network, which I
interconnect with The Internet".

Corporations use a different version of RFC5321 that's 30% shorter and
removes features they happen to not use?  Or are they using the same
RFC5321, but simply not using all the features?

The distinction is in fact important.

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