In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Roger B.A. Klorese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> Again, Listserv isn't
>> a part of the SMTP transport system, it is a mere client of that system,
>> as am I.
>
>Really? If it connects to an SMTP server directly and has an SMTP
>session with it, how is it any less "a part of the SMTP transport system"
>than the sendmail invocation that's called by Majordomo?
Does it do MX resolution?
Does it cycle through the MXes, trying various ones until it finds a live
one?
Does it do queuing?
Does it do retries?
Does it connect to *non-local* SMTP servers?
If the answers to all of the above are ``yes'', then heck! Let's just
throw away our MTAs and use Listserv instead, because the MTAs are ob-
viously just redundant excess baggage.
-- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc.
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