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From article <8811040331.AA00880@rutgers.edu>, by hxn8477%njitx.decnet@NJITC.NJIT.EDU ("NJITX::HXN8477"):
> 
> I have been thinking about an idea which can reduce the network traffic 
> greatly.  It is about the bandwidth that the mailing lists unnecessarily
> consume.  

What you describe involves separating the envelope from the mail message.  The
MMDF mailer does this for the PHONENET protocol (dial up traffic).  The SMTP
protocol allows this as well, and since it is widely used on the internet
already (despite someones blunder with debug/sendmail) I suspect that a lot
of traffic is already eliminated.  SMTP goes like

MAIL FROM: <user@domain>
RCPT TO: <user1@domain>
RCPT TO: <user2@domain>
...
DATA

...
.

With as many RCPT TO: lines as recepients.  As long as the origination
point or some point along the ways does not resort to uucp or other
'one message per user' routing, things will be pretty much optomized.

(Now all we have to do is convince the world that it is NOT UN*X's fault,
 just a programming blunder.  Of course the media loves this and couldn't
 care less if it could have been prevented.)


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