Subject: Re: Q: Any justification for failing RSET?
From: [email-masked]
To: SM <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:49:19 -0500
List-Id: <ietf-smtp.imc.org>

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:24:53 PST, SM said:
> 
> At 10:16 29-10-2005, [email-masked] wrote:
> >(2) The intent was to limit the number of transactions per connection (to 1)
> >    and the implementation was seriously botched.
> 
> It's an antispam "feature".

"Hey, let's be gratuitously incompatible - that will confuse the spammers.."

Are standard for anything anymore, other than giving us a feeling of moral
superiority while we go drown the memory of the latest assault on them? :)