From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <04f801c4a7ca$bee61a80$0fee7d50@SOMA> From: "boyd, rounin" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature" Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:24:17 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: ebaeaa30-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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.