Re: IM2000 Won't Be Worth It

Jon Ribbens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > You can do that *right now*, with POP3 or IMAP.
> > 
> > No, you can't.  At best, you could retrieve the complete message header, which
> > is far more information than the "summary-only" retrieval of IM2000 -- but
> > more to the point, at this stage with SMTP you have already paid the cost of
> > transporting the entire message to the POP3 server, plus the cost of storing
> > the message on the POP3 server.  You haven't done /either/ of these things
> > with IM2000.
> 
> Why do I care if either of those things have been done?

Because you, as recipient, directly or indirectly, pay the costs of doing so
in an SMTP world.

Charles
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