On 8/26/20 7:07 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
I meant (a), in the sense that you should probably write it up
in a more presentable fashion than a GitHub README page. You might
want to nicely typeset it in TeX or something to make it seem more
serious. Just a suggestion...
I'm sure there
On 8/18/20 6:44 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
I will have to collect a list and get back to you.
Here are part of some crude notes that I created for myself to use to
build a Gentoo mail server about three years ago. This is the email
specific parts. The rest were for other non-email aspects.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 08:33:58PM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:57 PM, Ashley Dixon
> wrote:
>
> > Why the name "HillaryMail", and why does the logo contain a picture of
> > Margaret Thatcher? ;-)
>
> very true (re: thatcher). now i cannot unsee the
>
On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:57 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> Why the name "HillaryMail", and why does the logo contain a picture of
> Margaret
> Thatcher? ;-)
very true (re: thatcher). now i cannot unsee the
thatcher in the pixel art. i have 2 options:
(1) rename protocol into
On 8/26/20 3:33 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
I would suggest using any reference to Hillary Clinton.
Typo: I would suggest *NOT* using any reference to Hillary Clinton.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 8/26/20 2:33 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
as for the name "hillarymail", nothing against her.
I would suggest using any reference to Hillary Clinton. I believe her
name is too politically charged to use it in good faith.
it's just that i heard so much about hillary's mails up to a
hi. i request comments on this new mail protocol
which i plan to implement some day if things turn
out well. here is its zeroth draft:
https://github.com/al-caveman/hillarymail
rgrds,
cm.
On 8/26/20 1:57 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 05:19:16PM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
hi. i request comments on this new mail protocol
which i plan to implement some day if things turn
out well. here is its zeroth draft:
https://github.com/al-caveman/hillarymail
On 8/21/20 10:11 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
not a major point but just to clarify a thing.
i think it's unfair to look at SMTP as a single thing that compares
against HTTP*. because while HTTP* is a single-ish thing, SMTP is
several things. i.e. SMTP is at least 2 parts:
Fair point.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:51 PM Grant Taylor
wrote:
>
> On 8/21/20 5:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > It is what just about every other modern application in existence uses.
>
> VoIP does not.
Yes, but VoIP isn't just implementing a simple data-exchange API. It
is a streaming protocol.
> No
On 8/21/20 5:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
It is what just about every other modern application in existence uses.
VoIP does not.
No RDBMSs that I'm aware of use it as their primary protocol. (Some may
be able to use HTTP(S) as an alternative.)
Outlook to Exchange does (did?) not use it. It
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 05:19:16PM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> hi. i request comments on this new mail protocol
> which i plan to implement some day if things turn
> out well. here is its zeroth draft:
>
> https://github.com/al-caveman/hillarymail
Interesting proposal. A few
On 8/21/20 10:15 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
just to double check i got you right. due to flushing the buffer to
disk, this would mean that mail's throughput is limited by disk i/o?
Yes.
This speed limitation is viewed as a necessary limitation for the safety
of email passing through
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