Re: Last Call: SMTP Service Extension for Content Negotiation to Proposed Standard

Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.fax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 01:58 PM 7/4/2002 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>IMO, the ultimate aim (even if this is not practical) is to deliver to 
>each recipient the same version of the Fax as they would have received IF 
>they were the only addressee while at the same time generating only the 
>minimum number of copies to allow multi-

That is a worthy and reasonable use for this capability.  And, of course 
yes, it motivated creating this option.

However that level of "perfection" is not required.  There is nothing wrong 
with a service model that is satisfied with sending the least common 
denominator.

The choice is the sender's.

d/


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