On Tue, 29 May 2001 08:27:09 CDT, Chris Barnes <[log in to unmask]> said:
> Once upon a time I found a website which listed all of the standards (what
> is that acronym for standards?), but I can no longer locate it. The
> standard I am specifically looking for is the one that talks about the
> placement of a reply in a group discussion list (Usenet and email lists).
There is no standard regarding replies. In fact, "Reply-To:" in conjunction
with mailing lists qualifies as a religious-war issue.
RFCs are available at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html
Here's most of the interesting RFCs.. I've probably missed something..
SMTP RFCS:
2821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. J. Klensin, Editor. April 2001.
(Format: TXT=192504 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0821, RFC0974, RFC1869)
(Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
1651 SMTP Service Extensions. J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E.
Stefferud, D. Crocker. July 1994. (Format: TXT=22153 bytes)
(Obsoletes RFC1425) (Obsoleted by RFC1869) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
1652 SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport. J. Klensin, N.
Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud, D. Crocker. July 1994. (Format:
TXT=11842 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1426) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
1845 SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart. D. Crocker, N.
Freed, A. Cargille. September 1995. (Format: TXT=15399 bytes)
(Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
1846 SMTP 521 Reply Code. A. Durand, F. Dupont. September 1995.
(Format: TXT=6558 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
1870 SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration. J. Klensin,
N. Freed, K. Moore. November 1995. (Format: TXT=18226 bytes)
(Obsoletes RFC1653) (Also STD0010) (Status: STANDARD)
1891 SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications. K.
Moore. January 1996. (Format: TXT=65192 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
1894 An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications.
K. Moore, G. Vaudreuil. January 1996. (Format: TXT=77462 bytes)
(Updated by RFC2852) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
1985 SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting. J. De
Winter. August 1996. (Format: TXT=14815 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
2034 SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes. N.
Freed. October 1996. (Format: TXT=10460 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
2442 The Batch SMTP Media Type. N. Freed, D. Newman, J. Belissen, M.
Hoy. November 1998. (Format: TXT=18384 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
2487 SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS. P. Hoffman.
January 1999. (Format: TXT=15120 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2505 Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs. G. Lindberg. February
1999. (Format: TXT=53597 bytes) (Also BCP0030) (Status: BEST CURRENT
PRACTICE)
2554 SMTP Service Extension for Authentication. J. Myers. March 1999.
(Format: TXT=20534 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2645 ON-DEMAND MAIL RELAY (ODMR) SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses. R.
Gellens. August 1999. (Format: TXT=16302 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
2852 Deliver By SMTP Service Extension. D. Newman. June 2000. (Format:
TXT=29285 bytes) (Updates RFC1894) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2920 SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining. N. Freed.
September 2000. (Format: TXT=17065 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2197) (Also
STD0060) (Status: STANDARD)
3030 SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME
Messages. G. Vaudreuil. December 2000. (Format: TXT=23405 bytes)
(Obsoletes RFC1830) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
MIME etc:
2822 Internet Message Format. P. Resnick, Editor. April 2001. (Format:
TXT=110695 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0822) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
1847 Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and
Multipart/Encrypted. J. Galvin, S. Murphy, S. Crocker, N. Freed.
October 1995. (Format: TXT=23679 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
1848 MIME Object Security Services. S. Crocker, N. Freed, J. Galvin,
S. Murphy. October 1995. (Format: TXT=95010 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
1892 The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail
System Administrative Messages. G. Vaudreuil. January 1996. (Format:
TXT=7800 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
1893 Enhanced Mail System Status Codes. G. Vaudreuil. January 1996.
(Format: TXT=28218 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
1894 An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications.
K. Moore, G. Vaudreuil. January 1996. (Format: TXT=77462 bytes)
(Updated by RFC2852) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of
Internet Message Bodies. N. Freed, N. Borenstein. November 1996.
(Format: TXT=72932 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, RFC1590)
(Updated by RFC2184, RFC2231) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
2046 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media
Types. N. Freed, N. Borenstein. November 1996. (Format: TXT=105854
bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, RFC1590) (Updated by RFC2646)
(Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
2047 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message
Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text. K. Moore. November 1996.
(Format: TXT=33262 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, RFC1590)
2048 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four:
Registration Procedures. N. Freed, J. Klensin, J. Postel. November
1996. (Format: TXT=45033 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, RFC1590)
(Updated by RFC3023) (Also BCP0013) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)
2049 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five:
Conformance Criteria and Examples. N. Freed, N. Borenstein. November
1996. (Format: TXT=51207 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, RFC1590)
(Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
2015 MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). M. Elkins. October
1996. (Format: TXT=14223 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2231 MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets,
Languages, and Continuations. N. Freed, K. Moore. November 1997.
(Format: TXT=19280 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2184) (Updates RFC2045,
RFC2047, RFC2183) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2311 S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification. S. Dusse, P. Hoffman, B.
Ramsdell, L. Lundblade, L. Repka. March 1998. (Format: TXT=70901
bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
2312 S/MIME Version 2 Certificate Handling. S. Dusse, P. Hoffman, B.
Ramsdell, J. Weinstein. March 1998. (Format: TXT=39829 bytes)
(Status: INFORMATIONAL)
2387 The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type. E. Levinson. August
1998. (Format: TXT=18864 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2112) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
2557 MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML).
J. Palme, A. Hopmann, N. Shelness. March 1999. (Format: TXT=61854
bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2110) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2632 S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling. B. Ramsdell, Ed.. June
1999. (Format: TXT=27925 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2633 S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification. B. Ramsdell, Ed.. June
1999. (Format: TXT=67870 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2634 Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME. P. Hoffman, Ed.. June
1999. (Format: TXT=131153 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2912 Indicating Media Features for MIME Content. G. Klyne. September
2000. (Format: TXT=20618 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2913 MIME Content Types in Media Feature Expressions. G. Klyne.
September 2000. (Format: TXT=16095 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2440 OpenPGP Message Format. J. Callas, L. Donnerhacke, H. Finney, R.
Thayer. November 1998. (Format: TXT=141371 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
Other useful RFCs:
2505 Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs. G. Lindberg. February
1999. (Format: TXT=53597 bytes) (Also BCP0030) (Status: BEST CURRENT
PRACTICE)
2635 DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and
Postings (spam*). S. Hambridge, A. Lunde. June 1999. (Format:
TXT=44669 bytes) (Also FYI0035) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
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