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Assig. 4 - Verbose text in server responses

Lo' and Behold, On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, thus spake Mark Aran Aiken:

>     I find that the specification for Assn. 4 is unclear in (at
>     Are the particular verbose replies mentioned in the spec to be
> used strictly "as-is", or are they only supplied to give us an
> idea of what the human-readable information should *look like*?

To me is fairly clear: they are to be implemented as specified.
 
>     Even more particularly, some of the verbose replies in the spec
> include such niceties as "goodbye _hostname_" or "aborting message
> with title _title_" (i.e., messages with session-dependent portions).
> Is it mandatory to provide this information in the responses, or
> would any verbose reply do (as long as the "terse" portion was spec-
> compliant for proper processing by non-human software clients)?

Naaa, get the host name, title, etc, and sprintf them in - c'mon, the
protocol part is just string processing, let's not make it too
trivial a string processing..

Ciao
Franco

P.S. telnet host.someplace 25 , then "HELO your.hostname", to see a "real 
life" implementation of the idea in a sendmail server using ESMTP.