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1994-08-06 - Re: Remailer ideas

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From: mccoy@io.com (Jim McCoy)
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
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UTC Datetime: 1994-08-06 05:55:16 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 5 Aug 94 22:55:16 PDT

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From: mccoy@io.com (Jim McCoy)
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 94 22:55:16 PDT
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
Subject: Re: Remailer ideas
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> >If I send a message for the first
> >time to a party and there's no reply, I cannot conclude whether the
> >message was not delivered or whether the message was delivered and not
> >answered.

Given a connectionless network absolute delivery is impossible (well, not
completely, but just about...)

> I would really like to see some kind of system for reliable email.  I'm
> surprised that it doesn't exist yet.

What makes you think that it doesn't?  You should check out Enabled Mail (I
think that is the name of it...); it is a set of MIME extensions that would
use a "safe" subset of Tcl to create triggers that can be set for message
receipt/delivery or for when the message is read.  I used to have a pointer
to the proposed system, but you should be able to find it by poking around
the comp.lang.tcl FAQ or asking over there.

jim

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