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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature"
Date: Fri,  1 Oct 2004 17:24:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <04f801c4a7ca$bee61a80$0fee7d50@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2004b4f729c51739d657dfa9b161531@vitanuova.com>

> Once the message is here, reading it into ram is not a serious
> problem unless you keep many many messages or very big ones.

the problem is that mail is now large as various dingbats have
decided to use it for file transfer via MIME.  this problem and
just the sheer quantity of mail means that any user agent should
be able to scale to cope with either case.

i don't see an F in SMTP.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-01 14:03 Sam
2004-10-01 13:19 ` rog
2004-10-01 13:56   ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-01 14:45     ` rog
2004-10-01 14:42       ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 14:51         ` Axel Belinfante
2004-10-01 14:58           ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 15:18             ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-01 16:27               ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-02 22:28                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-10-02 22:55                   ` George Michaelson
2004-10-02 23:22                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-01 14:54         ` rog
2004-10-01 16:59           ` Richard Miller
2004-10-01 15:01     ` Russ Cox
2004-10-01 14:49   ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-01 14:56     ` Axel Belinfante
2004-10-01 14:56     ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 14:59       ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-01 15:07         ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 15:16       ` rog
2004-10-01 15:24         ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2004-10-04 12:33 Caerwyn B Jones
2004-10-04 12:39 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-04 14:13 Caerwyn B Jones

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