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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Differences invoking sendmail or using socket (localhost,SMTP)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.005452.2101@prl.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:54:52 GMT
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- Umm, without wanting to sound naive and reactioanry at the same time, but:
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- What we need here is:
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- /bin/deliver-this-for-me-i-doan-care
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- User agents should understand as little of the underlying network and
- its protocols as necessary. User agents that talk SMTP? No, no,
- anything but that. 822 messages down a pipe, fine.
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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- ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
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