Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

[John Stracke]

Vernon Schryver wrote:

> There is no magic.   Users have been demanding the impossible from SMTP
> on the grounds that they don't understand why not for decades.  The same
> people who wouldn't try to load 10 ton of gravel in the back of their
> light duty pickup truck expect email to be 99.9999% reliable, have
> end-to-end delays of less than 15 seconds 99.9999% of the time, and to
> move arbitrarily large files in at most 15 seconds.

The difference is that they can *see* the truck.  They can't see the mail
servers.

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