From owner-ietf-smtp(_at_)dimacs(_dot_)rutgers(_dot_)edu Thu Aug 15
20:04:03 1991
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 91 19:17:06 PDT
From: postel(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU
To: header-people(_at_)mc(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu,
ietf-822(_at_)dimacs(_dot_)rutgers(_dot_)edu,
ietf-smtp(_at_)dimacs(_dot_)rutgers(_dot_)edu
Subject: large messages
Cc: postel(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU
Hi.
We've run into a problem in distributing the Internet Monthly Report.
It seems that some of the people recently added to the distribution
list (primarily by being on the ietf list) are behind mail relays or
have mail systems that do not handle large messages.
This is a problem for these people, and they in turn ask us to break the
large message into pieces and send the pieces as separate messages.
This
is more work for us. Should we do it, or should we ask that these mail
systems be fixed?
--jon.
Hmmm. Sounds like a perfect application for the Jon Postel Robustness
Principle, which implies: "both!".
Bob