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- From: ccg@tcdsp1.mmm.com ("Charles Ganzhorn")
- Subject: Re: SMTP mail
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.175238.20719@mmm.serc.3m.com>
- Sender: ccg@tcdsp1 ("Charles Ganzhorn")
- References: <92209.190519KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET> <92211.092548KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET> <1992Jul29.083024.1@ptavv.llnl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:52:38 GMT
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- I'd like to jump in here and ask a couple of questions:
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- What is MIME?
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- Secondly, I fail to see why forgery is not considered a breach of security.
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- Next, saying that mail doesn't require privacy is just caving in to the fact that
- I can't get it with SMTP.
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- A good mail system should include authentication, privacy, arbitrary file
- attachments, acknowledgement, directory look-ups, and mailing lists just to
- name a few features.
-
- Now, SMTP doesn't preclude any of this: the user interfaces for SMTP
- are just crude. The only part that SMTP really interferes with is that
- everything (as far as I know and correct me if I'm wrong) must be transmitted in a
- text format. That puts undue stress on the mailers to encode everything.
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- What has been people's experience with the NYSERnet X.500 trial and did they
- come up with any decent user interfaces with, for example, an integrated
- directory look up?
-
- Charles.
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