[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.58-BETA-1 is available

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 10:43 -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> >
> > Well, system administrators generally have a good reason for setting
> > the maximum message size, and for RFC authors to attempt to subvert that
> > is just plain wrong.
> 
> Yes, but this was also written during the days of open relay and expected 
> multi-hop mail delivery.  What the end-points enforced and what the 
> in-betweens decided were different.

And if anyone is old enough to remember when it was difficult for
anyone but a university to get an internet connection and uunet
dialups were the way the rest of us had to work, there were
ftp<->email gateways that were very useful for obtaining the
latest copy of gcc and the like, and this couldn't possibly
have worked without splitting the delivery across many messages.

Times may change, but protocols don't - that's the point of
having them...

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com