Re: SMTP and new 822 interworking

[Neil Rickert <rickert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <> you write:
>
>The goals of passing 8 bit mail via 7 unmodified bit SMTP systems is
>possible.  However, when passing 8 bit mail between two 8 bit SMTP
>systems there is an efficiency loss.

 Absolutely right.  There is an efficiency loss.  And there is a cost
for enduring this efficiency loss.

 There is also a substantial cost for junking all existing software and moving
to something new.  It may be many years before the volume of traffic in 8 bit
data is enough for the tradeoff to warrant redoing SMTP.  (And who know -
by that time we might all be using X.400 anyway).

 Let's give some thought to cost benefit ratios.