Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Is UUNET going to upgrade? Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 04:45:48 GMT References: <1991Jun10.144434.21216@m2xenix.psg.com> <1991Jun18.024342.1387@uunet.uu.net> <1084@camco.Celestial.COM> <28609F47.1E0D@tct.com> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: chip@tct.com's message of Thu, 20 Jun 1991 12:27:51 GMT In article <28609F47.1E0D@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: Quite! Batch SMTP already exists and is supported by Smail 3.1 (among other transports). What say you, UUNET? BSMTP could cut down significantly on E-Mail processing overhead, and lots of us out here in modemland are already using it. Chip, could you give a tutorial on compressed batched SMTP ? That would seem to be the ideal thing for long-haul links with high modem costs. How to set it up within smail, what the gotchas are, how much of a savings in on-line time there is and at what cost in extra compression vs. benefit in fewer uuxes done. Numbers would be nice to know, if they're convincing we'll start to offer the service on our dialups. -- Edward Vielmetti, MSEN Inc. moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com