- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:54:59 -0400
- To: Amelia A Lewis <alewis@tibco.com>
- Cc: Mike Dierken <mike@dataconcert.com>, "'xml-dist-app@w3.org'" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:00:12PM -0400, Amelia A Lewis wrote: > Are there any other schemes that are largely write-only, associated with > protocols that are effectively write-only (in SMTP, you can't ask for > your mail; TURN has been deprecated for longer than I've been on the > net, and ETRN signals the desire for the start of another transaction > with role reversal)? How about read-only? POP is largely read-only, I > suppose (updates happen outside the protocol). FWIW, SMTP isn't write-only. It has safe and idempotent methods; VRFY and EXPN. So you could imagine having an identifier for a mailbox, clicking on it, and seeing "'foo' is not a recognized user in the bar.com domain". (i.e. the output of VRFY) MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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