Re: IM2000 Won't Be Worth It

James Craig Burley <[email protected]> wrote:
> >No, it's a hybrid. In fact, it seems to me that NNTP offers every
> >advantage that IM2000 could possibly offer for mailing lists, and
> >more, and only uses software and protocols that are already available
> >today.
> 
> Cool.  Though, presumably NNTP doesn't offer the concept of private
> email to individuals?

Indeed, although most news clients will let you easily send a news
article and also cc: it by private mail.

> Well, except for one: subscribers can be *notified* about new messages
> to the list, without the list manager or subscribers having to pay for
> bandwidth to *push* those messages to the subscribers, and without
> subscribers having to *store* those messages pending their reading
> them or deciding they don't want to read them.

This is true, although personally I suspect this benefit is pretty
small and is certainly not worth replacing SMTP to achieve ;-)

> Yup.  You can get, say, 100 people at a given domain each polling a
> given list on their own arbitrary schedule, then retrieving 100
> distinct copies of a given message that comes in, versus a
> barely-smart-enough list manager (smarter than qmail anyway ;-)
> putting all 100 addresses in a single outgoing multi-RCPT delivery via
> SMTP.

Heh, don't get me started on that. It's one of the main reasons
I don't use qmail.

> >Plus if the subscribers
> >really are only polling once every several days, they're on average a
> >couple of days behind on the list!
> 
> With some lists, that's a *feature*.  ;-)

Maybe if it could be configured on this list manager... ;-)