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From: imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Authenticated SMTP, anyone done one?
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.053704.1059@solbourne.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 05:37:04 GMT
References: <17169:Jun1122:04:5791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <43225@cup.portal.com> <1991Jun13.222559.7574@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In article <1991Jun13.222559.7574@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> hughes@logos.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes) writes:
>[PEM's] use is strictly voluntary, and unless both sender and recipient
>implement it, it's not very useful.

So is RFC 931.  RFC 931 is on more hosts than PEM.  There are a LARGE
number of hosts that don't use RFC 931.

Warner
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