> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas von Hassel > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:17 AM
[ Snip ] > I have to disagree, while it can be a pain in the butt to deal with > disgruntled users and idiot admins, if we start slacking up on things > like this we end up with a set of RFC's that don't mean squat to people > ... Yet there is at least a viable school of thought that this particular feature is not forbidden, just strongly discouraged, as in "should not" compared with "must not" or "shall not". Now, whether or not *you* happen to agree with that reading is entirely secondary to the issue of whether an admin, who may not be an idiot, does. And if he does, you (and your disgruntled users) lose. Which leads to the inevitable observation that there are no prizes for conformance to the RFC, but there are for getting the job done. The job of a mail transfer agent is to transfer mail. Not pass a conformance test based on a specific interpretation of an RFC... > /thomas Malc. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
