After all two wrongs don't make a right,
But two Wrights make an airplane
In honour of the 100 year aniversary
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org [mailto:owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On
Behalf Of Paul
Hoffman / IMC
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:22 AM
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To
Us]
At 2:14 PM +0200 9/18/03, Francis Dupont wrote:
=> IMHO it should reject SMTP connection from the beginning with the
521 greeting described in RFC 1846...
People are unhappy about VeriSign breaking the rules. But here you
are proposing that they follow an *experimental* RFC whose rules were
not accepted into the later revision of SMTP in RFC 2821. How will
them breaking the rules twice make it better?
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium