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From: J�rgen Exner on 13 Apr 2010 15:01
"David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)" <dformosa(a)usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:44:04 -0700, J�rgen Exner <jurgenex(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> And I cannot imagine how email or the Internet or Usenet would work
>> without any written specs and protocols.
>
>Usenet and email both where cases where existing protocols where
>documented after they where implimented rather then the other way
>around.

If today you were given the task of implementing a new email server from
scratch, would you rather reverse engineer the protocols by observing
the data flow in an existing system or would you consult the written
RFCs?

jue
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