[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

David Passmore dpassmor at sneakers.org
Sat Mar 23 22:45:16 CST 2002


On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:39:23PM -0500, James Sharp wrote:

> No.  Negotiate compression between MTAs and mail servers.

Okay, then I still don't see how that applied to what I said-- that mail
servers today (I mean 'servers' as in 'machines')-- are not scaled properly
to accept any kind of computationally expensive processing on mail messages,
whether this includes compression/decompression or encryption of some type.

David



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