Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!MANTA.NOSC.MIL!ron From: ron@MANTA.NOSC.MIL (Ron Broersma) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: status of POP Message-ID: <8707062148.AA24354@manta.nosc.mil> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 17:48:14 EDT Article-I.D.: manta.8707062148.AA24354 Posted: Mon Jul 6 17:48:14 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jul-87 01:29:13 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 13 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