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From: brunner@CACFS.ARMY.MIL (Thomas Eric Brunner)
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Subject: Re: Broken SMTP daemon @ WPAFB-FDL.ARPA
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Date: 14 Mar 89 17:11:30 GMT
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David,
	Don't take this too seriously, the nic's smtp service, which
advises that one not worry and be happy views an unargumentative "helo"
similarly:
	220-SRI-NIC.ARPA SMTP Service 6.1 at Tue, 14 Mar 89 08:52:36 PST
	220 Don't Worry.
	helo
	500 Missing required argument: helo
as does, of course, a.isi.edu... For all I know this is a feature of TOPS-20,
as both of these two hosts are DEC-20s running TOPS-20, and version 6.1 of
their SMTP implementation, emulated on VMS hosts :-).

Eric
P.S.	Ignore bogus return address, fixing mailer,
	use brunner@spam.istc.sri.com for best results