>The opening sentence of RFC 821 states " The objective of Simple Mail >Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is to transfer mail reliably and efficiently."
yay stuart! thanks - you are less lazy than me. ;-) >At any rate, it doesn't matter what the original designers intended. >The fact is that e-mail isn't as immediate as other forms of communication. >If you call or IM me, you'll find out pretty quick whether I got the message. just want to point out that you are talking about asynchronicity - which is different than reliability or immediacy. eg. a user may not be sure when a receiver will actually read their message, but they may expect it to be in the inbox sitting there waiting for them. that's expecting reliability, immediacy, and asynchronicity. when a user call someone on their cell phone, they expect reliability, immediacy and synchronicity, unless they leave a voicemail, which shifts their expectation to asynchronicity. hm. okay. let's admit it - plug is mostly good for self indulgent bsing when we should be working but it's kind of fun. and look, i deleted all that cruft at the end just for stuart. my karma is going through the roof. -josh /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
