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Subject: Re: pop-before-smtp (was Re: FreeInet and checking mail?)
From: Brad Knowles (blkskynet.be)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 04:37:07 CDT

At 7:23 PM -0400 2000/6/6, Greg Hudson wrote:

> Pardon me while I zero in on just one issue: what "major resource"
> burden does an open, idle TCP connection place on the transport
> network?

        Well, if you now have to have a modem for every user (or the
equivalent for other access methods), there's also going to be a lot
more network traffic just sending TCP "keepalive" packets, etc.... 

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