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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems..
In-Reply-To: Message from "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
   of "Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:13:49 +0200." <002801c33b90$f6981fc0$d2944251@insultant.net>
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:53:41 -0400
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| > Oh, come on... just to indicate that email is waiting?
| > A udp packet once in a while is more than enough.
|
| UDP?  is that reliable?  does it scale?

Sure.  It works fine for much larger things, like DNS and AIM.  It's just
the right tool for this job.