On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:19:22AM -0500, Timm Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >BTW, why does SMTP (and now ENCP) use HELO instead of HELLO? | I think because in the old days, when there was no such thing as an "SMTP | client" besides telnet, "HELO" was faster to type then "HELLO" (the double-L | can be awkward to type). And for aesthetic reasons, lots of requests were 4 chars long. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Vikings? There ain't no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it. - Dan Sorenson, DoD 1066, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
