[2106] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Trickle Down? How About Bubble Up?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Schryver)
Mon Jan 27 06:12:03 1992
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 03:10:29 -0800
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: your article <gaa4ms0@sgi.sgi.com>
> "...It is possible to do dial-up IP just as easy as it is to do uucp or FIDO
> these days...."
>
> 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....
This is not so for mail, if both dial up machines have properly configured
backup MX forwarders which are always on line.
Should the other dial-up machine be off line, mail will go to the forwarder
for the other one. When the other one eventually comes alive and stays
around long enough for normal, automatic queue processing on its forwarder
to notice, it will get its mail. "Long enough" is often 15 minutes.
This works fine for me, using recent versions of sendmail.
Many others have wished for ways to automagically poke the MX server when a
dial-up machine reappears in order to speed the process. It's likely that
some have steps.
Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
