On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Michael L Torrie wrote:
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 06:49 -0700, Josh Coates wrote
i'm not an email-original-designer-intention-historian, so please correct me
if i'm mistaken.
I can't say if or where you are mistaken about the history of and the
RFCs surrounding e-mail, but it appears e-mail was designed to be "best
effort." That is all. There is no QoS for e-mail.
There's a huge difference between "no QoS" and "doesn't matter if you
intentionally add delays", however. There's no QoS for AIM, for instance,
but if AOL started started implementing a five-second delay for every
message (maybe "to fight instant messaging spam"), you can bet users would
be pissed.
Some people like and depend on the fact that 99% of their email is
received and delivered within a few seconds, and a delay of an hour for a
significant portion of those emails would throw off their groove.
Greylisting would be a bad choice for these people.
Other people don't depend on that fact, and the delay doesn't bother them
in the slightest. Greylisting would likely be a good choice for these
people.
The whole "best effort" excuse is pretty pitiful, in my opinion. IP does
not provide any sort of QoS and is "best effort delivery", but if your ISP
starts degrading IP performance, you're going to be upset.
~ Ross
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