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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Information Junkie)
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Subject: Re: Peer-to-peer in Client-Server
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Date: 2 May 91 21:09:55 GMT
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> are to run in an X-defined client-server environment?  If for example
> I have a User Agent on my workstation that connects to a Message Transfer
> Agent on a server and the connection is through X, what is the effect on
That would be frowned upon.  Given the lack of standards in RPCs and
the ease of establishing X connections it's far too easy to decide to
use X as a generic data transfer mechanism, but it's really not designed
for that.  A UA<->MTA relationship should be independant of the X connection.
In fact it's not at all uncommon for the UA, MTA, MS and Display to all be
on different machines.



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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.