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mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:


>M Kuhn, Uni Erlangen, DE or
>Markus Kuhn, Computer Science, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany

>or something else and after a few seconds your mailer should know
>everything about my mailer (e.g. address, document types allowed, ...).
>E.g. test the de DUA that comes with ISODE.

Define a few seconds. I guarantee that you will find non-obscure, non-rare
cases which will take well over 30 sec to complete. At current rates of
growth, coverage will be under 20% of the Internet-at-large for some time
to come. 

It works well for self-managed domains, self-consistent arenas like .de
which is a heavily structure/managed network. It works poorly in the
anarchy of the Internet.

lightweight protocols/services win hands down. The community would have
been better served by a targeted service for mail location/delivery and
not a catch-all. 

-George
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