Please remember that it's quite possible to run good software very
badly... of course bad software run badly is another thing...
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Alan Thew alan.thew@???
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
>> Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>>
>> > As mentioned before, since there are more and more people running MTAs
>> > who know little about mail transport we need a document on the basics of
>> > mail transport.
>>
>> Uh, what are the RFCs for? Anyone running a real MTA (obviously this
>> excludes crap like MSexChange) should be fairly familiar with mail
>> transport, which is explained in RFC 821 and/or 822, I always forget.
>
>Actually, anyone having a host on a public network listening on port
>25 should be familiar with RFC821 (and others). Running crap software
>certainly shouldn't exempt people from that responsibility.
>
>But the fact of the matter is that there are a growing number of people
>who have come to feel that if they have software (which is supposed to do
>the job) that they don't need to know what goes on behind it.
>
>Whether a book on mail transport basics would help, I don't know. After
>all, the problem is that they don't think that they need to learn anything
>to run a mail system.
>
>-j
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