Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 02:24:06 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email push and pull (was Re: matthew dillon) Message-ID: <a05200f38ba6f51f20eff@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <3E498175.295FC389@mindspring.com> References: <20030211032932.GA1253@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <a05200f2bba6e8fc03a0f@[10.0.1.2]> <3E498175.295FC389@mindspring.com>
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At 3:04 PM -0800 2003/02/11, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> There are lots and lots of really big questions that haven't been
>> answered about this kind of solution. This list (from the bottom of
>> this page) is just beginning to think about scratching the surface:
>
> [ ... list ... ]
>
> These are all "doable" today, with existing infrastructure, no
> changes necessary, if you accept that the messages being sent
> are minimally the RFC822 headers, just without the normal body
> contents.
Isn't e-mail unreliable and slow enough that we don't really want
to make this situation an order of magnitude worse, because now we
have to send many smaller notices about a message we have waiting for
one or more recipients, and then we have to wait for them to come
pick it up?
Why not just give everyone in the world an IMAP account on your
mail server and make everyone use shared folders?
>> Indeed, I'd be interested to know if there is a single analog
>> anywhere in the world for this kind of system.
>
> 1) Lotus Notes.
No, not really. Besides, we all know how poorly LAN e-mail
packages scale. Been there, done that.
> 2) Usenet, with cryptographically protected messages
> that can only be read by their intended recipient(s).
Again, not really. Nice idea, but the OP said that the messages
themselves were never sent, only notices -- the message bodies would
then be retrieved via a pull mechanism.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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