Re: SMTP and multicasting

On 1-mrt-04, at 20:05, Doug Royer wrote:

>> I suggested earlier to also replace NNTP with a new mail protocol.

> nntp-ng tried to merge NNTP and SMTP headers. The problem was
> that some same name headers had different meanings between those
> protocols.  Could be a perfect time to also fix net news. I would think
> that it is out of scope for this list.

It doesn't have to be if we observe that for a user, mailinglists and 
newsgroups are pretty much the same thing. There have been many 
comments to the effect that we have to include some special handling 
for mailinglists.

I think it would be interesting to see where we get by applying the 
multicast routing model to mailinglist distribution. So a client would 
send a "listener report" to the local server, and the local server 
would open up a path through the network to the source in order to 
receive list messages. A list server would then automatically try to 
deliver new messages to all mail servers that have indicated they're 
interested in the past 48 hours or so.