[ih] Fwd: Design choices in SMTP

[Craig Partridge]

Thanks Noel - that's the page I'm remembering and I believe that's the FTP
section that is missing from RFC 542.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 5:53 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

>     > On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 4:45 PM Craig Partridge wrote:
>
>     > (As I recall, they were on a page by Jon Postel in the ARPANET
> Protocol
>     > Handbook but may be misremembering).
>
> I looked in my hardcopy 1978 ARPANET Protocol Handbook - ToC here:
>
>   http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/arpaprot.html
>
> and there's a section for MAIL, but apart from a copy of RFC733, there's
> only
> a one-page thing, "Mail Protocol" (NIC 29588), in it. I put that online a
> long
> time ago:
>
>   http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/history/Mail_Protocol.txt
>
>   Noel
>


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