Bill Cole at 2002-03-02 15:41 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>I can't explain any rational justification for doing this sort of 
>thing with SMTP, where the extensions are really not the security 
>problems, the core functionality is.

Its basically, "security by obscurity" (in this case, IMO, ridiculous) 
e.g. by zapping the characters it prevents the SMTP server from 
announcing what it is, its version, etc.

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