At 15.58 -0800 00-12-14, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
At 18:20 14/12/2000 -0500, Mark Wickens wrote:
Hello,
I am interested in opinions on the feasibility of transmitting DSN requests
by means of message headers rather than SMTP (as RFC 1891 describes).
This was debated extensively at the time the documents were written,
and the conclusion at the time was that the layering violation of
using headers for this was just too distasteful for serious
consideration.
There are other layering violations which have been accepted. For
example the "Received" RFC822 header obviously belongs to the message
transport layer, but is still part of RFC822. Why is this allowed, if
layering violations are so distaseful?
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