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This is about SNMP, and says nothing about SMTP.

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Changed above. Thanks!

Except now it says SMNP, not SNMP.

Oosp! Fixed now.

See?! I'm not the only one! :)

I made a stupid typo, once SMTP gets in your brain it's hard to get it to rattle its way back out I guess. It's corrected now but the old link continues to work.

I have the same with use, which apparently I cannot type without the r as in user. And intern, which my brain insists on autocorrecting to internet.

Likewise, I cannot write "director" without extending it by a letter into "directory".

Off topic, but did you get style inspiration from b3ta.com?

https://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue768/

The link does say

>>> 2021-05-01 simple as in smtp

I suspect the idea is that neither smtp nor snmp are simple when you dig down, despite the name.

And I'd agree with the article, mibs can be maddening

And for snmpv3:

"if you are using SNMPv3 where the authentication and configuration can be amazingly, maddeningly complex for some vendors."

Indeed

That could be, but I'd rather they made the case. When SMTP came out, it was indeed very simple. In college in the 1980s, I could send email just by doing something like:

  % telnet mail.umich.edu 25

  MAIL FROM: <william@umich.edu>

  RCPT TO: <joe.blow@umich.edu>

  DATA

  From: William Pietri <william@umich.edu>
  To: My Skeptical Friend <joe.blow@umich.edu>
  Subject: Who needs a mail client?

  You can send email without a mail client!

  .

It's harder now, because spammers. But to me it's amazing that something like has been working for nearly 40 years. For perspective, it came out the same year as the Commodore 64.

The curious can read the inital RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821

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