Subj : proposed new nodelist [2]
To : Jasen Betts
From : Malcolm Miles
Date : Thu Jul 18 2002 03:31 pm
On Jul 16, 2002 Jasen Betts wrote to Peter Knapper:
JB> Requiring Hosts to be POTS capable is unlikely to be a permanent
JB> solution unless IP nodes can exist without a host.
Why not? The PSTN system is not going to go away in the future. Requiring a
host node to have a phone line that can receive calls at ZMH is not an onerous
requirement. If all nodes in a net are IP-capable then the net can be quite
large so fewer hosts in a region/zone would be required than today.
JB> The main problem I see with multi-listed systems is the mailer being
JB> able to recognise it as multi-listed and pick the most appropriate
JB> node so send the mail to.
It is not the mailer's responsibility to determine which node a message should
be sent to. It is the mailer's responsibility to select the most appropriate
transport mechanism to use to send a message to a particular node.
