As for other first-class mail, Postal Service standards call for certified letters to be delivered within three days -- sooner, for deliveries in the mailer's home city.
The basic Internet e-mail standard — S.M.T.P., or simple mail transport protocol — has always provided for the destination server to send back an error message if the original message cannot be delivered.
This would extend the capabilities of the 20-year old e-mail standard known as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), which is used to deliver most of the world's e-mail.
I want them to assign some of their smartest people to a top-secret skunkworks project to develop a new e-mail standard that can be deployed easily and with minimal need for end-user action, but which once and for all brings the flood of unwanted messages to heel.
All participants received a mailed standard letter containing information about the project and a short questionnaire including the Berlin Questionnaire.
In some instances this is inevitable — it's hard to deliver e-mail without knowing the destination, after all — but in many cases it's a result of the drive to stay compatible with regular e-mail, since encrypting the sending e-mail address and subject line would pose awkward problems for users who prefer to view their e-mail with standard mail programs.
Deciding whose mail will be delivered and whose will be bounced is a thankless task, and most proposals envision that several independent groups would publish e-mail standards.
And since MMS is based on Internet e-mail standards, it will be possible to send MMS messages between phones and PCs, which is currently hard to do.
The congresswoman in charge of House mailing standards, Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich)., has reminded members that it's now OK to use greetings such as "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Hanukkah" in mailings to their constituents, thanks to a rules change enacted last year.
Armoires and multiple telephones, with data ports and voice mail, are standard.
Page, the QC for the Mail and Standard, told the court that everything she had put to Cooper "points to you being one of the ringleaders of the Millbank protest".
