smtp is stateful protocol?

• From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:03:01 -0700
• To: <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <012701c3851f$c1cace40$470ba8c0@beasys.com>

I was reading through rfc822 and rfc821 today.  SMTP seems to be a stateful
specific method protocol that has been widely and sucessfully deployed on
the internet.  Heck, there's even state transition diagrams.  Anybody
disagree?  Please make sure to have read smtp before responding.

Cheers,
Dave

Received on Saturday, 27 September 2003 13:48:41 UTC