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store-and-forward
- Jun 26, 2026 Store-and-Forward Delivery and the MX Indirection How mail separated the address a sender writes from the host that receives it, why transfer is hop-by-hop rather than end-to-end, and what the retry rules actually require. computing history
- Aug 22, 2025 Push Notification as a Store-and-Forward Channel Why mobile push cannot be a socket the server writes to, how the vendor service buffers and delivers, and what the delivery guarantees do and do not include. mobile computing
- Jan 30, 2023 Decomposing Path Latency into Propagation, Serialization, and Queueing The four terms that sum to the delay across a network path, how each scales with distance, link rate, and load, and which ones a sender can actually influence. networking
- Nov 8, 2022 Envelope and Header Addresses in SMTP Delivery Why a message carries two independent sets of addresses, which one routing and bounces actually consult, and what breaks when a gateway rewrites one but not the other. internet protocols