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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Re: VERY strange behavior at USENET/BITNET gateway
Message-ID: <17996@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 11 Jan 89 17:03:16 GMT
References: <8901101440.AA20029@ewok.amd.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
Organization: Stanford University
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      The SMTP standard seems clear on the division between header and
body of a message.  Difficulties in some implementations in dealing with
such a standard are irrelevant.   Such problems must be dealt with in
individual implementations.  

					John Nagle