Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3100 comp.std.misc:32 comp.mail.misc:1164 comp.mail.uucp:1631 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!polya!cayuga!andy From: andy@cayuga.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.std.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Standardizing Email? Keywords: Wouldn't it be nice Message-ID: <3611@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 15 Aug 88 19:47:08 GMT References: <788@vsi.UUCP> <1380@cloud9.UUCP> <3437@phri.UUCP> Sender: news@polya.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: andy@cayuga.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 20 In article <3437@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: >dts@cloud9.UUCP (Daniel Senie) writes: >> There is a standard called X.400, which is the Message Handling Systems >> standard. It allows dissimilar machines to exchange and transport mail. >I thought that was what RFC-822 was all about. Silly me. Yes, silly you. They're looking for "future" standards, not standards that have been used for many years. If it predates the vax, it doesn't count. 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.) -andy UUCP: {arpa gateways, decwrl, uunet, rutgers}!polya.stanford.edu!andy ARPA: andy@polya.stanford.edu (415) 329-1718/723-3088 home/cubicle