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AG> == Alasdair Grant <A.Grant@ucs.cam.ac.uk> 

 AG> Because P7 is built on top of, among other things, the OSI Reliable
 AG> Transfer Service (RTS). Imagine a situation where you are trying to
 AG> retrieve a 100Mb MIME message over a cellular phone link that goes
 AG> down every time you go under a bridge. Potentially, you have a
 AG> better chance of eventually transferring the message with P7 than
 AG> with SMTP, since SMTP requires a TCP connection to be maintained
 AG> throughout the transfer of the message.

With a proper implementation of TCP/IP over the cellular link, you'd be
fine (yeah, it'd be slow, but I bet RTS would be slow too).  After all,
it was developed for battlefield implementation ("The router's what?
Down?  It took a 105mm?  Oh.")

I still don't see this as a necessary advantage of P7.
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