Re: Let's get started

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 09:38:29 +0200 (CEST),
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<[email protected]> wrote:
> Just recently I saw something about commercial instant messaging
> systems going for server-based email..  Here is the article:
> 
> http://news.com.com/Was+that+IM+or+e-mail%3F/2100-1032_3-5238364.html?part=rss&tag=5238364&subj=news.1032.5

That article from what I read was more about bridging IM,SMS,email,etc
then revamping the way Internet mail is implemented.

> What are the requirements we would expect from IM2K? I for one
> wouldn't want to send out my newsletters by round robin anymore -
> One copy to each recipient - I want multicast in there. I don't
> mean IP Multicast, not limited to that, but generally the protocol
> notion of distributing information to multiple recipients efficiently.
> 
> I send one notification to Brazil and my friend's server there
> redistributes it to all other brazilian recipients. Or better.

I don't see this being something that would be needed or advantageous
for im2000. You could implement this sort of system outside of im2000,
or SMTP. If you already know someone in Brazil with a mail server they
could just let you relay through their server. You would just need to
determine what address you would want to route through them.

-- 
Sean