[ih] connection performance, FTP RIP

[John Levine]

In article <693cf23f-9e00-a4dd-0db4-26530718ef2f at dcrocker.net>,
Dave Crocker via Internet-history <dcrocker at bbiw.net> wrote:
>As I recall, SMTP was largely driven by a desire to have only one data 
>transfer, when there were multiple recipients at the same destination.  
>A thoroughly reasonable desire, IMO.  And yet now, SMTP tends to do 
>single addressee transfers, due to various handling, content and abuse 
>issues.

As network speeds have increased but the speed of light has not,
multi-address SMTP doesn't save time any more, so it's not worth the
effort and the loss in message customization and error handling.





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