From: cos@leftbank.com (Ofer Inbar)
Message-Id: <9607031612.AA16635@leftbank.com>
Subject: Re: eliminate QUIT?
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 12:12:03 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: The Left Bank Operation - http://www.leftbank.com/
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Eliminating QUIT seems to me to be out of scope.  However, a statement
telling server implementors to handle clients that disconnect right
after sending QUIT identically to clients that disconnect after the
server replies to the QUIT, is probably a good idea.

  --  Cos (Ofer Inbar)  --  cos@leftbank.com  cos@cs.brandeis.edu
  --  WBRS (100.1 FM)   --  WBRS@brandeis.edu http://www.wbrs.org/
 "... as a member of ASCAP, I can assure you that this is not a model
  we should emulate ... It doesn't really work.  Honest."
                   -- John Barlow, "The Economy of Ideas", Wired 2.03