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Subject: Re: [OT] broken mailers (was: smtpd_banner without ESMTP)
From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 08:15:14 CST

Matthew Hawkins <matthewtopic.com.au> writes:

> Following internet standards is irrelevent, what it boils down to at the
> end of the day is PHB 1 being able to talk to PHB 2 in the fastest time
> possible. This will mean making _your_ mail server not reject mail from
> non-compliant systems it should rightfully reject from. And 20 years
> down the track the internet has fallen to pieces because the standards
> that exist for compatibility are completely ignored, and the PHB's will
> be wondering why they spend all that money on IT infrastructure that has
> come to a dead end.

...that has been subverted for inferior reasons by abused monopoles if
you want my opinion. You know Microsoft won't fix broken bulbs, they
will make them standard. 

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Matthias Andree

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