Smoot Carl-Mitchell writes:
> >David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> >
> >The e-mail system was developed in the days when reliable permanent
> >connections were the exception rather then the rule. [...]
>
> This is not correct. TCP was just as reliable in the early days of the
> Internet as it is today. Most mail in those days was sent to its final
> destination in a single client/server session just as it is today.
> There was not a lot of hop-by-hop mail delivery.
Hum... E-Mail existed long before TCP. And in the UUCP days you even
needed to actually *know* part of the hops your message needed to do
to arrive to its destination !
> The RFC821 specification for SMTP simply did not contemplate SPAM mail. [...]
Of course at that time nobody cared about RFC821...
Kim-Minh.
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