[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 16:17:28 (-0500), Sridhar the POWERful wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] thoughts on SMTP
>
> Why not rob latency to increase available bandwidth for mail?  Latency
> isn't really important for mail.

I was talking about the latency of the link, not the latency of e-mail.

Latency of the link is incredibly important for some SMTP mailers.
Even with ESMTP PIPIELINING latency it can still be quite a big deal.

(now if you can get enough concurrent SMTP connections running then the
average throughput will hide even the worst link latency, though it
won't necessarily let you get as good a total throughput as you could
with a low-latency link, at least not without wasting a lot of resources
on trying to run even more concurrent jobs, and not always is the
concurrency under your control, though in the case of mailing list
distribution it should be)

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