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From: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: eliminate QUIT?

> I don't understand the motivation for this.

It will eventually permit simpler clients. What's the harm?

> Eliminating QUIT would seem to
> give servers an extra excuse for closing connections more or less at random
> or, at least, for depending far more on timeouts to see if anything is going
> to happen rather than making orderly closes.

This makes no sense. Eliminating client-side QUIT has no effect at all
on server timing.

---Dan