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Thanks Vint!<br>
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Actually, since posting, a few BBN folks gave me some additional
history (Bob Clements and Ken Pogran in particular). I hadn't
realized that the NIC had paper-based mailing lists going for early
RFCs and such - that's how the word got out (software by ftp).<br>
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Miles<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/26/16 10:28 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">dave crocker and john vittal can help here I
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Miles
Fidelman <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Folks,<br>
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Maybe a silly question, but....<br>
<br>
I remember arriving at MIT in the Fall of 1971, immediately
getting an<br>
account on the AI lab ITS system, and a month or so later,
Ray Tomlinson<br>
sent the first ARPANET email.<br>
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Pretty quickly, a mail program showed up, and within a few
months, email<br>
was flowing all around the ARPANET.<br>
<br>
But, I'm wondering about the play-by-play from Ray sending
mail between<br>
two adjacent machines at BBN, to mail being available on the
early batch<br>
of Internet hosts.<br>
<br>
For those running TENEX, I assume they ftp'd Ray's code (or
was it some<br>
precursor to ftp?). But.... how did people actually find
out about the<br>
code - after all, there weren't any email lists to announce
it on.<br>
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And, for those not running TENEX - how did folks find out
enough details<br>
to code up mailers and clients for other machines, and then
get the word<br>
out?<br>
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Anybody remember the play-by-play?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Miles Fidelman<br>
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