[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1

[Tony Finch]

Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
> To the extent that x.400 use became common, it wasn't unusual to see a
> business card with a multi-line email address, for all the attributes you
> gave, but listing a /series/ of ADMDs, for all the carriers you could reach
> the person through.  Each carrier, really, meant a different email address.

This makes it sound a bit like late-1980s-style % hacks for gatewaying
email were baked into X.400. Here's one of my favourite descriptions of a
world that was a few years gone before I got on the net:

http://vtda.org/docs/computing/UniversityOfWarwick/JANET-Mail-Gateways.pdf

Tony.
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