--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:21 PM 9/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > >Back in my time you couldn't get a Ph.D. in Physics > unless you could > >write mail in FORTRAN, or at least punch the cards > and drop them off. > > I thought back in those days you just wrote a > message, wrapped it around a > big rock, and threw it as hard as you could. Then, > whoever the rock hit > would pick it up and throw it as far as he could in > the same general > direction. Thus, the mail relay system was born.
That's the obsolete RCK protocol, which was dropped because the packet size would sometimes kill the relay. John Hebert __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com
