Re: Federation protocols

On 1 June 2013 03:49, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:

> Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>> We could indeed use SMTP for messaging and it has advantages, but it
>> would be nice to get the web up to be able to do something as simple as
>> sending messages between two parties after more than 20 years.  We're not
>> there yet, and if we can even achieve that small step it's a victory!
>>
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> Umm, why?
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> Messaging is messaging.  The "web" is HTTP and hypertext - client-server
> computing.  Two different things.
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> And, by the way, there've been server-based email systems for at least 60
> years.


Try taking two users at random on the FSW on different networks.  Then try
sending a message from user 1 to user 2.  In many cases there's no standard
way to do it.


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> Miles Fidelman
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> In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
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