[ih] CSNET
    Miles Fidelman 
    mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
       
    Fri Sep 30 11:59:02 PDT 2011
    
    
  
Dave CROCKER wrote:
>
> The wikipedia entry on CSNet is pretty good, though a bit sparse about 
> some of the startup details and confused about MMDF:
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSNET>
>
> It's a bit odd that it mentions my doing an NSF review on the original 
> proposal, but not that I developed and ran the email relaying service 
> that finally emerged.  In terms of software, MMDF was the name of that 
> overall mail relaying package.  Phonenet was the phone-specific 
> channel of MMDF.
None better than you to correct it Dave. :-)
Miles Fidelman
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