[ih] When did "32" bits for IP register as "not enough"?

[Clem Cole]

Sigh -- parsing error.   Re-read that.  You did say PP came from MMDF.
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:50 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:06 AM Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
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>> PP, which in turn came from MMDF.
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> Tony - are you sure its that order?  I was under the impression MMDF came
> first and PP was the descendant, but I'm interested in being enlighted and
> why you think that was order.
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> FWIW: We ran both at Locus in the late 80s/early 90s.   I know we replaced
> MMDF with PP at one point.   IIRC the combined reasons were DNS was
> changing and the MMDF code was not tracking the user mode API fast enough;
> plus we needed an interface to X.500 for one of the customers and MMDF
> could not do it and PP had the code in it already.
>
> Like many sites, we distrusted sendmail for a number of reasons (security
> being high on the list, but being a monolithic solution did not help
> either).   Locus needed a mail system that was flexible and could talk to a
> number of different custom mail transport agents since our customers were
> the major computer companies and at that point, each had its own way of
> doing things.  In those days,  we could not put our customers' code out on
> the Internet due to intellectual property issues, as the legal folks were
> concerned that they could lose their rights because of the store and
> forward nature.  Hence, Locus set up private connections over leased lines
> or in some cases microwave, to each.
>
> Anyway, the email work was done for us in the Boston office by an ex-Pat
> Scotsman; whose name I now am blanking (grrr - I can picture his face but
> his name is just not coming -- which is bad we worked together at 3
> different firms).
>
> Clem
>
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