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From: ron@MANTA.NOSC.MIL (Ron Broersma)
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Subject: Re: status of POP
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 17:48:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 17:48:14 1987
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It would be nice if someone decided what was the official version of POP.  We
assumed some time ago that the official version was POP2 because at the time
that was the latest POP protocol documented in an RFC.  I had the MH version but
it clearly didn't implement POP2 although it did some other things nicely.

We have our own PC mail implementation.  It uses POP2 because we like to
stick with standards and we thought POP2 was it.  If someone is going to
merge POP2 and MH-POP into POP3 and call it the standard, that would be
great.  However, I'd like a chance to have input because we have found POP2
to be deficient in a couple of minor ways and were required to modify it and
hence stray from the "standard", sigh.

--Ron