Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nwnexus!edm
From: edm@nwnexus.WA.COM (Ed Morin)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Batch Mailers (was: to PEP or not to PEP?)
Message-ID: <164@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 89 22:18:22 GMT
References: <1989Aug10.175458.20369@utzoo.uucp> <7642@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.; Seattle, WA
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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