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Subject: getting started
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From: Keith Moore <moore@CS.UTK.EDU>
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 18:15:59 -0400
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I guess we have enough people on the list by now to start discussing things.

Welcome to the DRUMS working group.  

Our first order of business should be to identify problems with the
existing mail protocol documents.  These could either be problems with
a specific section of text in one of the existing RFCs, or more
general "structural" problems which indicate that a particular area
has been neglected in explaining how these protocols fit together.

So now is the time for members to carefully re-examine the mail RFCs,
and see what problems you find.  Now is also the time for those who
have recently implemented Internet mail protocols to point out the
things that were confusing or poorly specified.  (those of us who have
been around for awhile may have forgotten how difficult it was...)

A reminder: the DRUMS working group is specifically forbidden from
defining new features.  If there are bugs in the functionality that
821, 822 etc. were intended to address, we can try to fix those, but
we cannot arbitrarily add things to the mail system.  Simply editing
and revising these documents is likely to be an immense task, and the
only way we can keep it managable is to limit the problem.

Keith Moore