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Re: Full Strength Stronghold 2.0 Released Worldwide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu May 8 00:29:23 1997
In-Reply-To: <3370CACC.41C6@netscape.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:45:55 -0700
To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>, Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: Cryptography Mail list <cryptography@c2.net>
At 11:32 AM -0700 5/7/97, Tom Weinstein wrote:
>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.
Is it worth compromising the security of everyone just to save some
incompetent user's ass? Losing the email is the universe's natural
punishment, and just perhaps sysadmins should not interfere.
If I had 2000+ emails waiting after 2 weeks, I might be quite happy to
trash them and start over. :-)
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