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

[Miles Fidelman]

Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> 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.
>
One wonders if Eric will mention MMDF. :-)

Miles

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