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Re: Full Strength Stronghold 2.0 Released Worldwide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Wed May 7 18:00:53 1997
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 11:32:44 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
CC: Cryptography Mail list <cryptography@c2.net>
Adam Shostack wrote:
>
> Have you replaced SMTP with something that offers reliability as a
> feature?
>
> By reliability, I mean traditional transactional atomicity with an
> action followed by a commit/undo agreement. If saying 'mail is lost'
> is not acceptable, than before rolling out KR, you need to roll out a
> base level of transport and software that can meet your reliability
> needs. God knows sendmail doesn't cut it.
No, we haven't. But saying "mail is lost" may be fine occasionally.
It's not okay if I go on vacation for two week and come back to find
that I can't read any of the 2000+ messages I've received in that time.
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