netdev - Re: [PATCH 17/11]Optimize the upload speed for PPP connection.

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:49:47 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com>
Cc:	huananhu@...wei.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/11]Optimize the upload speed for PPP connection.

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:20:09 EST, William Allen Simpson said:

> And your trailer boilerplate badly breaks the system, because it's
> missing the SMTP email standard "--" line in front of it.

Ahem.

It's not an 'SMTP standard' - in fact, SMTP doesn't even care diddly about the
user-visible *headers* in the mail, much less what the convention for a
signature block is.  If you get EHLO, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, DATA, '.', and QUIT,
that's 95% of SMTP right there.  And none of it where normal users can even see
it (though the MAIL FROM can show up as Return-Path: sometimes).

The '-- ' *convention* isn't even at the next layer up, MIME.  If anything,
it's out at the liveware level (though some MUAs provide code to make it
a bit easier to deal with...)

(Feel free to cite RFC chapter-and-verse if you disagree, and note that
'Informational' RFCs are never standards. ;)

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