On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:28:03 PDT, Dave Crocker said: > And, by the way, it is inherent because a feature that is designed to > obtain per-recipient information is likely to be implemented in a way the > delivers per-recipient tailoring. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail... > The issue is not what the email originator does. The issue is what the > sending MTA does. > > In other words, how it maps the recipient list, generated by the > originator, into SMTP commands. And there is currently disagreement whether to keep using nails, or if bolts would be a better fastening device. My point was that the original "send to one recipient" mindset won't last very long, so whatever mapping we end up using had better not be *too* horrendously inefficient. People *will* end up sending to multiple recipients at a destination (unless we insist that "destination" will be a "personal device" (like a PDA etc) rather than a "mail server". -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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