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

[Dave Crocker]

On 10/4/2021 8:52 AM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> On 10/4/2021 7:10 AM, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
>> I was wondering when someone was going to speak up.  This history of 
>> email seems to start pretty late in the game. 

sigh. after further consideration, I gather the 'this' meant Eric's 
publicized statement, which seems to start with 1983, although it notes 
'sendmail was already there'.  So, yeah, by 1983 email was by some 
measures already pretty mature.

On a separate vein, fwiw, characterizing sendmail as "a stopgap measure" 
seems odd.  It's predecessor, delivermail, well might qualify, but it 
always seemed to me that sendmail was an attempt to do a serious and 
designed tool.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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