This is now an officially documented protocol implemented by many other network sites. Full description is in RFC 743, obtainable from [SRI-NIC]RFC743.TXT Description of new XRCP command for FTP: XRCP allows a user of an ITS FTP server to mail some text to several recipients simultaneously, rather than having to send the text again for each. Its use is as follows: XRCP can be given at any time during the FTP dialogue; the reply will be either 200 for "Rcpt OK" or 450 for "Rcpt not OK". Any number of XRCP's may be given. All recipients so specified and acknowledged by a 200 will be remembered by the server. When a standard MAIL or MLFL is given (with or without a rcpt specification) the message text furnished will be sent to everyone specified by the previous XRCP's. Whatever the result of the MAIL or MLFL, all rcpts saved will be forgotten, in preparation for another message. Note that whereas the result of a XRCP has no effect on other XRCP's, a failure return for a MAIL or MLFL applies to ALL the rcpts specified. For this reason, it is unwise to specify an additional rcpt with the MAIL/MLFL, since a 450 reply to the string is indistinguishable from a global failure for all rcpts. Of course, if only one rcpt is being specified, the normal MAIL method should be used.