Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdahl!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Dial up access to Internet facilities Message-ID: <7253@gollum.twg.com> Date: 6 Jun 90 01:07:48 GMT References: <1990May25.163528.14300@ameristar> <9005270423.AA19852@psi.com> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 34 In article <9005270423.AA19852@psi.com> schoff@PSI.COM ("Martin Lee Schoffstall") writes: > The plight of many small technical businesses is that we just cannot > justify spending $30K+... > Were access fees brought inline with the level of > service offered >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. Hmm.. interesting discussion. uucp/tcp isn't a good choice because the transition through rmail loses information and bursts messages going to multiple recipients. There's a bunch of CSNET like tricks that can be played to make this work out better. For instance, a "relay" machine could be advertised as a fairly low cost MX alternative for the true site causing mail to be dropped at the relay. Oh, but does sendmail choke a bit when it has lots of undeliverable mail in its queue? Sigh, such is life... :-) Count me in as a potential customer of low cost IP service. It'd be real nice, when travelling, to be able to reach my home site w/o problem. For day-day work-at-home stuff I think I can manage to arrange something local without too much expense, especially since my home line isn't charged as a business line. "On the road" is another matter entirely.. -- <- David Herron, an MMDF weenie, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!