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Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...

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From: Boyd Roberts
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 21:25
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In article <davecb.725923251@yorku.ca> davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>  Your mail may be unreliable, but mine isn't: mine uses SMTP, ...

The reality is that it's a miracle that SMTP based mail works _at all_.
The complexity of the problem is astounding, but it does work for a 
large number of all the messages sent.  Peer-to-peer it may give some
degree of certainty, but apart from that it's like Neil Rickart described
in <1993Jan2.171410.30990@mp.cs.niu.edu>.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

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