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Re: [Asrg] About that e-postage draft [POSTAGE]

2009-02-19 17:38:19
John Leslie wrote, On 2/18/09 5:59 PM:
John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:
[...]
None of this is new, this was all worked out a decade ago.  But it's
all still way too slow to keep up with an interesting amount of e-mail.

   Have you perhaps not noticed Moore's Law at work these last ten years?

CPU power is not likely to be the critical bottleneck for a system that has to do large numbers of transactions across the Internet. Network latency is particularly resistant to Moore's law or anything like it.
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