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is used to send messages from one user to one or more others. This kind of messages is generally used between mail-robots and human beeings, between human beeings themselves, and between human beeings and mail-robots. It will be tagged as "personal Mail":
It is intented, that the message reaches the Recipient(s) with high liability .
The chain of trust has to be strong and complete, and there is at least one recipient.
The recipients are notified about the message, and eventually the notification is repeated until collection occurs, until a timelimit is reached or until imposibility of "delivery" is supposed or proved.
The Sender will want Information about reception or collection of the message, or about failure of delivery.
Persistence of the message on the Mail Store Server is normally from posting until collection or removal by the Sender.
This form is used to send messages to a principially unknown audience. This kind of message is generally used between human beeings and groups of human beeings.
The concept of Recipient(s) is replaced by a category (refering to the contents), a "Mailing List" or "News group". This category can be replaced by a "fake" Recipient address, known to the Mail Storage Server which uses a mail-robot to handle special processing.
There is no requirement that a messages reaches any Recipient. Messages usually expire, not necesarily in terms of persistence on the Mail Storage Server (archive), but in terms of actuality of it's contents.
The chain of trust eventually only includes the posting path of the message transfer process.
The recipients are either not notified, or only by special processing.
The sender will not want information, but eventually the collection count and/or frecuency will be measured and made available.
Persistence of the messages on the server is eventually the expiry time, but will mostly be infinite.
Recipients use "Scan"ning to learn about "new" messages.
This form is used to send messages to a limited and eventually known audience. This kind of message is generally used between human beeings or mail-robots and groups of human beings. Like in "News" the Recipient represents a category instead of a vitual itentity and mostly will use a mail-robot for special processing.
The messages are required to reach each recipient.
The chain of trust involves the whole message path.
The recipients are mostly notified.
The sender does not require information about collection status.
Eventually messages expire and are deleted, eventually they are deleted upon successfull collection of all members of the list, but mostly they will persiste infinitely, albeit become outdated.
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