‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, August 28, 2020 11:27 PM, antlists <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26/08/2020 21:21, Grant Taylor wrote: > > > > so basically total expected number of protocols/layers used in the > > > universe, per second, will be much less if we, on planet earth, use a > > > mail system that uses HTTP* instead of RESXCH_*. > > > > I obviously disagree. > > Exactly. You now need a protocol/layer that says you're running "mail > over http" as opposed to "web". HTTP is tcp/80 that means web. As soon > as you start using it for something (anything) else you've just added > another protocol/layer. you know there is this almost neat concept called url? rumours say that urls can identify various web applications, ranging from websites, rss, games, video, and, guess what? mails. all over http/https/h2 over same tcp 80/443. hard to believe, but this magic is known since early 1990s. are you saying [1] won't work unless we have a new tcp port for it? [1] https://github.com/al-caveman/hillarymail (work in progress, incomplete) i don't want to repeat. re-read this sub-tread, and search for "resource exchange layer". you really don't know what's http*. also not going to respond to you in this sub-thread any more (ignore list is growing...). side note: i seriously suspect that we got GPT-4 bots in the list.
