On Sunday 11 February 2018 at 19:15:59, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > Who is the ignorant here? > > Rfc 822, standard: usa
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822 "Obsoleted by: 2822" What do you mean by "Standard: USA"? I know what an IETF Standard is, and it's quite different from an RFC, which we were discussing. What does "USA" mean in the context you used it above? Strange that I can't find SMTP under www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/std/std-index.txt though, other than STD0060 and STD0071, which are both extensions. > Rfc 2822, *proposed standard*: usa https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822 "Obsoleted by: 5322" > Rfc 5321, *draft standard*: usa https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321 "Updated by: 7504" > Rfc 5322, *draft standard*: usa https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322 "Updated by: 6854" > ... > > The list goes on. It does indeed, because RFCs get revised, modified, updated, replaced and obsoleted. > To you, and those like you, who claim better knowledge, read twice > yourself, because the actual standard is still rfc 822. Use it if you want, but don't expect the rest of the Internet to be compatible with you. It's not the way things work. Antony. -- I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. - Douglas Noel Adams Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.
