On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:23:44PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Date: 1 Dec 2000 18:28:12 +0000
> From: "Mark Delany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Another issue for my money is that of the lost of instantaneousness
> that would result in having to (effectively) retrieve a web page for
> each email you read. It sounds silly, but adding a mere second to the
> time it takes to pull up an email once you've decided to read the
> contents would bug a lot of people.
>
> I would indeed hate that, but it is not implied by the IM2000
> architecture.
Indeed.
> People like us would run programs which would receive
> the notification and would automatically retrieve the message onto our
> local system before notifying us that there was mail.
So unless the "debit unknown senders" problem is solved, it does
nothing for spam. Pity.
Regards.
