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To me what is important about email as infrastructure is SMTP and the principles of delay tolerant networking and federation. SMTPs store and forward reliabilit
by cromwellian 11y ago
To me what is important about email as infrastructure is SMTP and the principles of delay tolerant networking and federation. SMTPs store and forward reliability model is a bedrock of communication on the Internet, when all else fails email won't or it'll die trying.
Anything vying to replace it needs to capture these features. I won't trade reliability for real time. There are other real time channels I can use.
- tinco 11y agoIf the e-mail is simply stored persistently until it's fetched succesfully (over HTTP), isn't that delay resistant networking? Are persisting proxies really important?
- zx2c4 11y agoCheck out DJB's smtp replacement, InternetMail2000: http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
- mondoshawan 11y agoThat seems less a replacement and more notes on a random idea with lots of questions. Some of his ideas in there are questionable, too. Seems like he's increasing the bandwidth usage for an MX in a big way.
- seiji 11y agomore notes on a random idea with lots of questions. That's djb's greatest strength and greatest weakness. He just does whatever he wants and doesn't care how it integrates with the rest of the world.
- zouhair 11y agoIsn't not being real time the main great thing about email?