Re: Message Routing Philosophy

Chuq Von Rospach <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ng
Message-ID <[email protected]> 

On Feb 1, 2004, at 7:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> We alrady have this kind of mail system. Its called INSTANT MESSAGING 
> and
> we have IETF standards for this system as well as multiple systems of
> their own design all operating on the net and quite popular.

Allow me for a second to play the heretic.

Has e-mail passed it's time? Should we be doing this at all? Or should 
we focus on standards enhancing IM protocols with store and forward 
capabilities and a backing store for when you're offline?

Do we need mail-ng, or do we already have it?
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