[2103] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Trickle Down? How About Bubble Up?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 27 00:51:30 1992
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 00:51:06 EST
From: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9201270423.AA13630@rivendell.us.oracle.com> "jhaverty@us.oracle.com"
From: Jack Haverty <jhaverty@us.oracle.com>
This is true, except that you can't exchange mail or files between
TWO dial-up users without some effort to make sure they're both
online.
But with judicious use of MX records, a permanently connected host can
buffer mail for a dial-up system. When the dial-up system connects,
it tickles the mailer of the permanently connected host, which then
dumps queued the mail to the dial-up system.
Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
