[ih] Some Questions over IPv4 Ownership

[richard at bennett.com (Richard Bennett)]

  Another interesting question is when the number of emails rejected by 
RBL exceeded the number that were actually carried to their ultimate 
delivery point.

On 10/15/2010 7:06 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
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> On 10/15/2010 9:19 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
>> I do wonder what year the Internet first carried more *packets per 
>> second* than
>> the current Internet carries *emails per second* - if that's clearly 
>> stated, I'm
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> It's an interesting question no matter how it's stated.
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> It suggests some sort of meta-analysis with different layers of 
> chunk/packet/segment/message services and making historical quantum 
> transitions of activity from one to the next.  Downward, given the way 
> you asked your question.  (Is this like moving things into hardware?)
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>> thinking Jack's point is that the only real difference is scaling.
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> Alas, some differences in degree become differences in kind.  The 
> latency and loss characteristics of messaging like email are typically 
> so different from what is usual for IP datagrams as to permit/require 
> all sorts of different design decisions.
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> d/
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-- 
Richard Bennett