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From: Mary Hawking [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 1998 5:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: NHSnet
In article <[log in to unmask]>, Ewan Davis
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>I'm not well know as a fan of NHSnet.
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>However, I understand that some significant upgrading of the message stores and
>SMTP gateway is about to occur which will provide both additional capacity and
>resilience, anybody want the old 286!!! Lets hope this brings some substantial
>improvements.
Ewan,
Do you know whether the problems we've been seeing are due to lack of capacity, to fundamental problems with X400 and/or the SMTP/X400 interface, or to network design problems?
I don't think there is a fundamental problem with X.400 (other than that it is not the email standard that the rest of the world use) or with the X.400-SMTP gateway. It should be possible to make it work although life would be simpler if we just forgot X.400. I'm specualting but I suspect the problem lies with the capacity and resilience of the existing gateway and I think this is being addressed
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>They are trying. I still think we need A NHSnetwork.
I'd agree - but the question is do we need this one? ;->>>>>
A good question. Yes if it can deliver what the service needs No if it continues on past form.
Mary
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