On Wednesday 26 July 2006 08:59, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 July 2006 22:49, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 25 July 2006 22:19, Steve Lamb wrote: > >>>> Paul Johnson wrote: > >>>>> So SMTP unifying email is a bad thing? That's what it sounds like > >>>>> you're arguing to me. > >>>> > >>>> No, that would be what your strawman is telling you. > >>> > >>> So are you going to explain why I'm wrong, or do we just take the > >>> Ultimate Supreme Holy Word of Steve Lamb? > >> > >> I did. Or are you unfamiliar with the term Strawman argument? > > > > I'm familiar with it, OTOH, I don't see it as a strawman, which is why I > > asked for explaination. > > Then you clearly aren't familiar with it. I ask you, just what does > SMTP have to do with what I did say given that I didn't mention SMTP at > all? The topology is identical, and how it works (servers being clients of other servers to deliver between sites, end users connecting to their local server) is identical to SMTP. The only real differences between SMTP and XMPP is XMPP uses XML and gets the job done in near-realtime whereas SMTP can take up to 4 days. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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