Re: Forms support in clients

Darren New (dnew@sgf.fv.com)
Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:09:40 -0400

> In my own network management related work, we handled this by coming
> up with an "association" concept that/protocol that has a lifetime
> longer than a single transport (indeed, it is transport agile -- able
> to leap to IPX/SPX or dial-up if needed.)

So basically you're replacing sendmail/SMTP with your own more-specialized
protocol. It still requires your machine to be running when the new document
arrives.

I agree that email is overloaded, but perhaps there's a reason for that. ;-)