Re: IM2000 Won't Be Worth It

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:
> IM2000 will reduce the cost of retrieving your mail.  In your mother's case,
> she can retrieve all of her waiting notifications very quickly (they're very
> small, and the protocol doesn't involve a lot of round-trip delays), her MUA
> will automatically then retrieve messages from her regular correspondents (all
> in parallel, perhaps, to maximize throughput and minimize aggregate transfer
> time).  It might also automatically retrieve only the summary headers of all
> of her other waiting messages, which she can look through /offline/ and decide
> which to ignore and which to retreive automatically the /next/ time she's
> online for a minute or two.

You can do that *right now*, with POP3 or IMAP.
No new mail protocols required.