[SunRescue] Dont feel like running BIND for 10 systems

[Sebastian Marius Kirsch]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 04:07:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Yeah, but have you read his Internet Mail 2000 proposal?  ROFL!  What
> a *stupid* idea!

I haven't more than glanced over it, but it didn't strike me as
'stupid'. It's radically different from what you (and I) grew up with,
and personally, I don't give it a snowball's chance in hell to become
accepted, or even wide-spread, but it does warrant thinking
about. Nowadays, it's the rule rather than the exception that a mail is
sent straight from the sender's ISP to the recipient's ISP via SMTP,
without any relays. But in the current infrastructure, the recipient
doesn't have an option but to receive the message straight away. djb's
proposal merely gives the recipient the option to say `That's fine, but
I don't want that message right now; I'll collect it later.', plus some
infrastructure for collecting the mail.

OK, maybe you're right. Maybe it *is* stupid, since it simply shifts the
problems of the current mail infrastructure to a different domain (not
the whole mail can be lost/undeliverable, but only the delivery notice),
and I don't know whether this rather small distinction warrants
overturning the whole internet mail infrastructure. 

-- 
Yours, Sebastian Kirsch <skirsch at moebius.inka.de>

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