On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:06:44PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
> Ah, you mean RFC 2476. 2476 is a _proposed_ standard. Since it hasn't
> moved since 1998, I think it is a _dead_ proposed standard. It is just
> another in a list of gratuitous changes that are shown by experience to be
> a waste of time and effort, as their proponents tilt at windmills trying
> to invent a protocol which can't be subjected to abuse and will prevent
> human behavior.
Yeah, just like POP (3) which was invented in Oktober 1984 and was
"dead" for 10 years until "suddenly" with the rush of dialin users
it became a desperately needed protocol to access mailboxes.
Or like FSP which's principle was reinvented by P2P.
\Maex
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