Just like that. POP finally found a use, though.
Historical note, I don't think it was dialin that got POP going, it was
client server computing and PC's that made POP attractive. I remember
trying to get users with unix workstations to use POP. We had to use a
program called snarfmail. Snarfmail was a pop client that put mail in
/usr/spool/mail, as though it had been received by sendmail, where Unix
mail and mh could pick it up.
--Dean
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:06:44PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > Ah, you mean RFC 2476. 2476 is a _proposed_ standard. Since it hasn't
> > moved since 1998, I think it is a _dead_ proposed standard. It is just
> > another in a list of gratuitous changes that are shown by experience to be
> > a waste of time and effort, as their proponents tilt at windmills trying
> > to invent a protocol which can't be subjected to abuse and will prevent
> > human behavior.
>
> Yeah, just like POP (3) which was invented in Oktober 1984 and was
> "dead" for 10 years until "suddenly" with the rush of dialin users
> it became a desperately needed protocol to access mailboxes.
>
> Or like FSP which's principle was reinvented by P2P.
>
> \Maex
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