Adam Bailey wrote:
>Point out a single commercial provider that has as many subscribers as
>AOL and is using POP3.
>
T-Online has 7-8 Million subscribers. Technically, there's not much
difference between 30 Million and 7 Million. (Just use 4 times as many
machines - one hostname maps to n IP addresses.)
>No one knows if POP3 can scale that high, because no one has tried.
>
>Furthermore, POP3 wouldn't interface well with AOL's current IMAP-like
>system. Does AOL scrap its entire email system and switch over to something
>completely different?
>
No, but POP3 can be offered as *additional* protocol. Which would also
be the answer to you question - only a part of AOL users would use POP3,
so AOL would have to feed only a few million subscribers. The IMAP-like
servers might even be dis-stressed by that. (Thus, the overall load gets
down, because, as I pointed out, IMAP-like protocols cause more stress
on server.)
What am I discussing here?
>>Just ask an arbitary ISP other than AOL. All ISPs I know "support"
>>arbitary clients, just that the hotline might not be able to help.
>>
>No ISP is anywhere near as big as AOL.
>
>Furthermore, the bigger ones (ie:
>EarthLink) are frequently criticized as having lousy support.
>
AOL is too *shurg*
Support which is as lousy as that of AOL does scale well - just add
people. They take only about 2 weeks to learn (anyway). (That's why the
support is so lousy.)
>>It is trivial to forge emails
>>looking to come from aol members by sedning them from another ISP.
>>
>Not accurately.
>
huh? Of course, it's trivial. Just enter a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as email
address in your Mozilla profile.
