Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3115 comp.std.misc:37 comp.mail.misc:1170 comp.mail.uucp:1640 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen 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 References: <788@vsi.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Distribution: comp Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 14 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) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me