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From: jrmacmillan@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John R. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.std.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Standardizing Email?
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Date: 16 Aug 88 06:22:34 GMT
References: <788@vsi.UUCP> <1380@cloud9.UUCP> <3437@phri.UUCP> <3611@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: jrmacmillan@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John R. MacMillan)
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In article <3611@polya.Stanford.EDU> andy@cayuga.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) writes:
|Does anyone how Europe's bold leap into the 60s a couple of summers
|ago came out?  (ISO was advertising an experimental mail system
|between dissimilar hosts, probably based on an X.400 predecessor.  We
|stupid Americans had been doing that for years.)

Keep in mind that they don't really have much choice; if they come up
with something and then "you stupid Americans" do it differently, they
are essentially steam-rollered into changing.
-- 
John R. MacMillan
jrmacmillan@dragon.waterloo.edu		If the universe fits, wear it.
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