Gerardo Gregory wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Read -> RFC 1796 first;
>
> Just cause it is mentioned as/or referenced to an RFC does not make it a
> standard.
Precisely, or vice versa, but what people should be worrying about isn't
RFC compliance, but interoperability and better design. Whether it means
RFC compliance, standards compliance, or neither.
Furthermore, some things in RFCs are just plain wrong or bad by design,
DSN (ugly design, plus you can't control it, and you can't do
anything about it, so why bother in the first place?) and MIME included
(Email should have been designed to be 8-bit clean from the start). The
the job of email servers should have been to copy messages around,
not parse them. Welcome to the Internet: it sort-of works.
--
"The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in
their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new
and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear."
--George Gurdjieff
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