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From: morgan@jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Dial up access to Internet facilities
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Date: 29 May 90 19:11:25 GMT
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> Somehow dialup Internet access and SMTP don't go hand and hand in my
> mind, my estimate is that your going to have keep a connection open
> for about 3 hours every day to have some probablity of synchronizing
> with all the SMTP agents pushing mail out of their queues for the
> site.  Realistically you'll be running uucp/tcp to a site like UUPSI
> who is MX'ing for your domain.

Indeed, SMTP's assumption that everybody's connected all the time
doesn't work well with occasionally-connected hosts.  It would seem
that the time is ripe for some sort of extension to SMTP to do
receiver-initiated transfers to meet this need.  Of course you'll
still need the MXing host to hold your mail for you.  Presumably
getting away from uucp is one of the points of all this.

Note that POP doesn't make it for the small-business customer.  I want
my address to be "morgan@mybusiness.com" not "morgan@barrnet.net".  I
also want to manage my own accounts on my own multi-user system, not
ask my provider every time I need a new one.

 - RL "Bob" Morgan
   Networking Systems
   Stanford