edm@nwnexus.WA.COM (Ed Morin) (08/15/89)
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >It begins to seem like it would be nice if there was a widely distributed >batch mail protocol - most of the little, high overhead transfers are now >mail, often 13 messages forwarded to the same person from some non-digested >mailing list. This sounds like a great idea. Has anybody ever given much thought to it? I know for folks on the Internet the low overhead of SMTP makes it unnecessary, but setting up long-distance UUCP connections can be costly with minimum connect times, etc.... -- Ed Morin Northwest Nexus Inc. "Unix Public Access for the Masses!" edm@nwnexus.WA.COM