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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.212536.5153@prl.dec.com>
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- References: <1i24ofINNaul@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <davecb.725923251@yorku.ca> <1993Jan2.171410.30990@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:25:36 GMT
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- In article <davecb.725923251@yorku.ca> davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
- > Your mail may be unreliable, but mine isn't: mine uses SMTP, ...
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- The reality is that it's a miracle that SMTP based mail works _at all_.
- The complexity of the problem is astounding, but it does work for a
- large number of all the messages sent. Peer-to-peer it may give some
- degree of certainty, but apart from that it's like Neil Rickart described
- in <1993Jan2.171410.30990@mp.cs.niu.edu>.
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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- ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
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