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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.std.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Standardizing Email?
Keywords: Wouldn't it be nice
Message-ID: <11870@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 16 Aug 88 17:34:03 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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There are several standards, and probably all will be used for at least
the next few years.
  RFC822 - specifies a message content (header and text)
  SMTP - a protocol for connecting two machines for text transfer.
	(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
  X.400 - another content specification

Many sites speak SMTP and RFC822, X.400 is less popular in the USA, and
I have reason to believe that there are a lot of buggy implementations
which won't talk to one another.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me