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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
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Date: 15 Aug 88 19:47:08 GMT
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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
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