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Re: quietly....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Feb 3 17:36:35 2011

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:30:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <51824.1296772068@localhost>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>

> On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:01:52 EST, Jay Ashworth said:
> > > 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?

Probably the latter.

C'mon; this isn't *your* first rodeo, either.  From the viewpoint of 
The Internet, *my edge router* is The Node -- as long as everything gets
to there ok, it's nunya damn business what I do inside.   Only what
comes out.

That's Why I Have A Router.

Cheers,
-- jra


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