Re: Thinking outside the box - send envelope first

John Levine <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Organization Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>Suppose that instead of sending the email the sender sent the "envelope" 
>first which is an invitation. The recipient then "fetches" the email 
>from the sender's server in a separate transaction. No point in sending 
>the email if the recipient isn't going to read it.

That's basically the same as a per-user RSS feed with notices to look
at it.

If you do that, Tumbleweed's patent lawyers will want a word with you.

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