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Re: quietly....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Feb 3 17:34:02 2011

To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:01:52 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:27:48 -0500
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:01:52 EST, Jay Ashworth said:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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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