From: "Geo" 

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
news:435a86d4$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> > What were they smoking? I can just picture these people writing a
password
> > specification "the password checking routine must not fail because a
> > password is incorrectly formed"...
>
> I get the feeling that some of the RFCs were written in a more trusting
> age, when it was considered polite to (for example) leave your system
> open as a relay to be used by anyone.

If it had been written earlier I agree, but this particular rfc was written
after the spammers started hijacking servers.

Geo.

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