Re: mail does bounce (was: Customers down?)

On Sun, 02 January 2000, Owen DeLong wrote:

I don't even assume that anyone elses mail system works, let alone that it works this way, or even complies with the RFC's.

There's way too much MicroSoft stuff out there to believe any of that. I merely purport that the above is BCP.

Could you point me to a written Best Common Practice which says this? Or is it simply one of those assumptions people like to make? The problem with assumptions is they work great, until someone makes a different one.