[ih] Internet mail in the 80's

[Nigel Roberts]

Not connected to 3com in any way, but I have a vague recollection of a 
site somewhere on the net that you could post to Usenet using email, 
somehow.

I'm sure others have better memories than me.


On 5/21/26 22:27, Bob Purvy via Internet-history wrote:
> When I was at 3Com on email, we had an employee, Marc Lavine, who set up an
> email gateway for us. This would have been 1986-87 or so. I'm not in touch
> with Marc anymore.
> 
> I remember absolutely *nothing* about it, except a vague recollection that
> we called it "the UUCP gateway." Do you think that's what it was, rather
> than "an Internet mail gateway"? It was not offered to customers and I
> don't think any of them ever asked for it.
> 
> It was not very heavily used -- that I remember.

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