On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, dman wrote:
> "incoming" == "this is the last stop" (now deliver it to a folder)
> "outgoing" == "not staying here" (hand it off to the next system)
... which is different from the definition that might be used on a
gateway/firewall system, where you might have
"incoming" = "from the Internet" (i.e. not from the local LAN)
"outgoing" = "to the Internet" (i.e. not to the local LAN)
The point being that the concepts mean different things in different
situations.
Messages can have more than one recipient. In your definition, a message
may be both "incoming" and "outgoing". In my definition, a message may be
neither!
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