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Re: MIME types for ack[-request]?

1992-03-26 15:51:58
Let's do some early tree pruning, else we will never get anywhere.

I propose that in the 822ext group that we limit our discussion to UA-level
acks (read acks) and to the format of ack messages in general, leaving a
placeholder for transport level acks in the ack message format.  MTA-level
acks can be discussed in smtpext or elsewhere. I don't want to implement
MTA-level acks using UA-private data.

It may be that, like Nathaniel suspects, there isn't a lot of demand for
transport-level acks.  That's fine, but I think the question of whether they
are useful is distinct from how they should be implemented, and that neither
one is appropriate for the 822ext (UA protocol) group.

Keith