ietf-smtp readers,
It was suggested that I write an I-D. It is a very rough, rather informal
presentation of a not-very-original-idea. Comments, please.
[quote from
<http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/i-d-announce/Current/msg00042.html>]
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
Title : When NOT to Bounce Email
Author(s) : R. Zinn
Filename : draft-zinn-smtp-bounces-00.txt
Pages : 11
Date : 2004-4-6
SMTP RFCs currently require that a notice message MUST be sent when a
message will not be delivered, even when the 'reverse-path' is
forged by a virus. Of necessity, some ISPs are now dropping such
messages silently. Silent dropping of such messages should be allowed
and encouraged under certain circumstances.
A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zinn-smtp-bounces-00.txt
....
Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader
implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the
Internet-Draft.
<ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zinn-smtp-bounces-00.txt>
[end quote]
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bz
please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.
bz+ietf(_at_)chem(_dot_)lsu(_dot_)edu