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Belisarius · 04-27-2005, 04:39 PM

They install a new program - corporations install new servers on their machines. This happens all the time. There will just be a transistion period. It's not that big of a deal - it's not like all of the sudden things stop working that once worked. The two will run in parallel for a while, then once everyone has the ability to use the new protocol support for the old one will stop.

Everytime I suggest a new protocol, the same arguments are made "Oh, it's too difficult, too expensive". No, it's not. It's simply next generation. The old stuff will continue to work, it's just that the majority of people will stop using it and switch to the new way. It's not like IPv6, which doesn't look or act like IPv4, and requires massive reworking of countless servers and networks (and many things will break once an IPv6 address is introduced to the code).

We're talking about "Well, we need to install this second generation e-mail server to run along side our trusty old Sendmail server". It ain't that earth-shattering. Did the world expode when ICQ and AIM were introduced? After all, they're a method of message delivery, just like e-mail.

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And how in the heck can you call it secure? Do you know how smtp works?

04-27-2005, 04:39 PM	#8 (permalink)
Belisarius Java fanboy Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,148	They install a new program - corporations install new servers on their machines. This happens all the time. There will just be a transistion period. It's not that big of a deal - it's not like all of the sudden things stop working that once worked. The two will run in parallel for a while, then once everyone has the ability to use the new protocol support for the old one will stop. Everytime I suggest a new protocol, the same arguments are made "Oh, it's too difficult, too expensive". No, it's not. It's simply next generation. The old stuff will continue to work, it's just that the majority of people will stop using it and switch to the new way. It's not like IPv6, which doesn't look or act like IPv4, and requires massive reworking of countless servers and networks (and many things will break once an IPv6 address is introduced to the code). We're talking about "Well, we need to install this second generation e-mail server to run along side our trusty old Sendmail server". It ain't that earth-shattering. Did the world expode when ICQ and AIM were introduced? After all, they're a method of message delivery, just like e-mail. edit And how in the heck can you call it secure? Do you know how smtp works? __________________ GitS Last edited by Belisarius; 04-27-2005 at 05:12 PM.