[NNTP] Re: MODE READER

[Mark Crispin]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> I'll address your other points separately, but I'll repeat this
> question since you failed to answer it:
> Let me ask you this question. What would you say is a typical range
> for peak (or 95-percentile) traffic in megabits/sec (client -> server
> and server -> client combined) for a large POP3 or IMAP installation?

Even if I had an answer for this question, it is irrelevant for the 
discussion at hand.

If a facility's lack of security is used to enable a major attack, the 
number of megabits/second without security ceases to be relevant.  The 
facility will do what is necessary to ameliorate the attack.

You are not the only person to squawk about the overhead of TLS.  The cell 
phone providers also vigorously object; currently use of TLS cuts battery 
time in half.

-- Mark --

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