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	Fri, 1 Mar 1996 03:10:22 +1100 (from kre@munnari.OZ.AU)
To: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU>
Cc: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: comments from a newcomer 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Feb 1996 09:48:49 CDT."
             <clBPnF600WBwEm3MAf@andrew.cmu.edu> 
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 03:10:38 +1100
Message-Id: <22169.825610238@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>

    Date:        Thu, 29 Feb 1996 09:48:49 -0500 (EST)
    From:        John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU>
    Message-ID:  <clBPnF600WBwEm3MAf@andrew.cmu.edu>

    Servers closing the connection on a timeout is a non-problem.
    Changing this aspect of SMTP is likely to cause problems.  Since I
    have objected to this change multiple times on this list and since
    nobody has addressed my concerns with any counterarguments, the change
    should be flushed from the document.

I agree with this, and further, I thought that this had been
discussed, and more or less agreed, in Stockholm.   Why is
this even still an issue?

On the "send 8 bits" stuff, I agree with Keith, its a rat hole
of an argument, that always ends with retaining the status quo,
so please, let's not have it again.

kre