-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Saturday December 30, 2006 at 07:26:57 (PM) Sander Holthaus > wrote: > >> The issue is that email never was designed to be used in that >> particular fashion. While it may be fast and almost instant in >> normal circumstances, it was not designed with that in mind. The >> fact that businesses do expect that is something else and it is >> what usually gives people in IT headaches. > > Henry Ford never designed the original "Model T" with electronic > ignition, air conditioning, GPS, etc. Does that mean that those > items, among others, should simply be discarded? Things evolve. > Even GUI's were probably not envisioned by the original PC > architects, yet most people today would not choose to operate their > PC's without them. That isn't a correct analogy. Last time I checked the RFC's relating to email, I still recognized a model T in there.
I'm not saying that things should not evolve, I'm not saying that email should not be instant or that businesses should not use it the way they do. But the technology behind email hasn't kept up pace with the way it is being used and the way people want it to use. If people really want email to be instant, secure and reliable, they should design a new protocol with those constraints in mind. Untill then, it remains a best effort. Kind Regards, Sander Holthaus PS: If people are this interested in making (E)SMTP instant, why isn't there a blacklist of MX's using greylisting? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFl7uKVf373DysOTURAiwbAKDUpdWPVUz3Gi7dgXcVAderPVmLoACgtOaM J907GUNefkcsW706Sb1mJ+k= =fg90 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
