> In many situations around the world in developing countries, it is > totally impossible to send a 10MB e-mail because the link will be at > least break once in the time it takes to send 10MB. As e-mail does not > resume... FWIW, RFC 1845 specifies such a mechanism for SMTP. There have been few implementations, however. > There are still many countries which only connection to the Internet is > a 64kb/s and quite a lot which speed is below 512kb/s > Developed countries and the IETF need to cater for these emerging > nations to avoid the digital divide. > I think as yahoo being a major e-mail provider it would be good, that > they become more responsible (they are actively fighting SPAM) and use > ESMTP when sending their e-mails. It seems they do use ESMTP to receive > e-mails... ESMTP in general and the SIZE extension in particular do offer some significant advantages in such situations. Ned _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf