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Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems..
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:21:43 -0400
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I think Scott's point is that, for this application, it doesn't matter.
A UDP packet that said, ``hey, you just got mail,'' would certainly scale
to thousands of users.  Unfortunately, no user agent software supports
such a thing, and most over-zealous firewall administrators would block
it anyway.  In that case, one could certainly fallback to polling.

	- Dan C.