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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > At 4:23 PM -0800 2/17/02, Paul Prescod wrote: > > >What do you mean by synchronous? Is SMTP asynchronous? If so, so is > >HTTP: > > > > * http://www.prescod.net/asynchhttp.html > > > >I would agree that there are protocols which are deeply asynchronous, > >unlike SMTP and HTTP. But most people, when they say asynchronous mean > >SMTP and HTTP is just as asynch as SMTP. > > > > This may be a terminology confusion. That's why I asked him: "what do you mean by asynchronous?" ;) > ... Many people carelessly use > "SMTP" to refer to the whole e-mail transaction, possibly up to and > including a response like this one typed by a human being and sent > back as a reply. That's clearly asynchronous. My assertion is that that has a lot more to do with the design of SMTP *software* than the SMTP *protocol*. And we could paste an HTTP interface onto the software and combine the advantages of REST (addressability) and SMTP (robust asynch software). Paul Prescod
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