Date: 5 Mar 1996 15:31:14 GMT
Message-ID: <19960305153114.4101.qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu>
From: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: proposed agenda for 8 March WG meeting

> Your mostly-unused 10 Mbps LAN is probably not a good testbed for your 
> theory.

My 14.4k and 56k lines, however, are wonderful testbeds. Everyone who
has actually tried this out rather than shouting ``That's ridiculous!''
has come to the same conclusion.

Profile. Don't speculate.

> PIPELINING is the solution for latency problems in SMTP.

In ten years, perhaps, but a good MTA is the solution _right now_.

> I suggest you focus your energy on implementing it.

Why? It's like 8BITMIME: quite a bit of effort for _at best_ a slight
return and _right now_ essentially zero return. I have lots of more
urgent things to do.

---Dan