> In many situations around the world in developing countries, it is
> totally impossible to send a 10MB e-mail because the link will be at
> least break once in the time it takes to send 10MB. As e-mail does not
> resume...
FWIW, RFC 1845 specifies such a mechanism for SMTP. There have been
few implementations, however.
> There are still many countries which only connection to the Internet is
> a 64kb/s and quite a lot which speed is below 512kb/s
> Developed countries and the IETF need to cater for these emerging
> nations to avoid the digital divide.
> I think as yahoo being a major e-mail provider it would be good, that
> they become more responsible (they are actively fighting SPAM) and use
> ESMTP when sending their e-mails. It seems they do use ESMTP to receive
> e-mails...
ESMTP in general and the SIZE extension in particular do offer
some significant advantages in such situations.
Ned
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