[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:08:24PM -0800, David Passmore wrote:
> 
> Glargh. Because it would kill a whole bunch of mail servers. Most ISP mail
> servers are architected to simply pass a buttload of data, not perform
> computationally expensive tasks on that data.

nah, it would work like mod_gzip, you could configure your mail server to not
do compression or the mail server just doesn't know how to do compression and
no compression is done.  negotiate, negotiate, negotiate!

-brian
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