Re: Storage: service provider vs user

On 13-feb-04, at 11:54, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

> Aren't you really assuming that there is a flag day, on which every 
> client, peer and server program on the net stops talking SMTP, LMTP, 
> IMAP and POP, and starts talking *-NG protocols? IMNSHO, that's a 
> hopeless assumption.

Isn't this off-topic?

I think NG and POEMS (Plain Old EMail System) should live side by side 
until the latter is obsolete. Flag days aren't possible: look at the 
euro, even though there was a flag day in reality the old stuff and the 
euro existed alongside for a significant amount of time. Full 
interconnection in both directions defeats the purpose so having both 
for a while is the only reasonable solution.

>> In Fidonet and I think also UUCP messages are bundled in an archive 
>> so that someone connects it's easy to download all new messages. Do 
>> we want something like this in the new system?

> Fidonet and UUCP both faded out of existence, didn't they? IMO, 
> anything that borrows too much from their design is unlikely to storm 
> the world.

There is a difference between reviving an obsolete protocol and using 
it for inspiration to come up with something new and better.