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

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

an "ancient" sendmail related quote from yours truly's archives:

"Sendmail is a nifty mailer whose flexibility ... is nothing short of
amazing.  How did Eric Allman embed this flexibility?  He used a
variation on Post Productions as address rewriting rules.  If he
hadn't taken a theory course, none of us would have sendmail today."

-- Mark Horton, in net.college, supporting the teaching of
        theory courses.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 6:11 AM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> 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.
>
> Oh?
>
> http://emailhistory.org/Email-Timeline.html
>
>       Single-machine email, roughly 1965.
>
>       Multi-machine email, end of 1971
>
>       Single-command reply functionality, 1975.
>
> That doesn't count as pretty /early/?
>
> d/
>
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