[ih] Eric Allman giving a public talk on the history of email

[Joly MacFie]

I could simulcast this over ISOC channels if there's no objection.

joly



On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:34 AM Dr Eberhard W Lisse via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Biil,
>
> as keen as I am to listen to this (having managed to configure sendmail in
> 9 lines of M4 in my younger days:
> https://linuxgazette.net/issue34/lisse.html) the time is 04:30 am my time.
>
> Will this be recorded and put up somewhere?
>
> greetings, el
>
> —
> Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone
> On 4. Oct 2021, 02:43 +0200, Bill Woodcock via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org>, wrote:
> > Perhaps of interest… Eric and Kirk have been very active members of the
> Berkeley Hillside Club, our neighborhood social club, for the past two
> decades. Eric will shortly (this evening) be giving a public talk on the
> history of email.
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
> > October Fireside Meeting — Monday, October 4th, 2021
> > 7:30 pm on Zoom
> >
> >
> > October Fireside Meeting
> > Monday, October 4th, 2021
> >
> > <
> https://hillsideclub.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=42d3e713c28ba5d4d8c2226fd&id=d02885f080&e=78bfa10bd7
> >
> > In Conversation with Eric Allman: The Evolution of Sendmail and the
> Internet
> >
> > Most Hillside Club members are aware than our new Club President is a
> wine aficionado, having seen him and his husband Kirk McKusick lead wine
> tastings, and coordinate the wine pouring at our Club dinners. But you may
> not realize that he is also an esteemed member of the Internet Hall of
> Fame, nor know how much you are indebted to Eric if you have ever used
> email. This conversation will discuss the origins of sendmail, the
> attitudes of the time, and how the Internet grew and changed over the years.
> >
> > Join us on Monday, October 4th as 1st Vice President Arlene Baxter
> engages Eric Allman in conversation about those early, heady days as
> electronic communication began to be an essential part of all of our lives.
> >
> > A bit of background: On January 1, 1983, the Internet was born from the
> ashes of the ARPAnet, and sendmail was already there. Written by Eric
> Allman as a stopgap measure in the early 1980s, it grew with the Internet,
> at one point delivering around 90% of all the email on the network.
> > The early developers of the Internet believed that "universal
> communication" would promote democracy and bring people closer together.
> Things didn't work out that way. Many folks, including Eric, gave away
> their work for free. That changed too.
> > Come learn more about the evolution of these tools we now take for
> granted on Monday, October 4th at 7:30 pm as part of our Hillside Club
> Fireside Series on Zoom, free and open to the public.
> >
> >
> > Register here: bit.ly/HSC-Firesides2021 <http://bit.ly/HSC-Firesides2021
> >
> >
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