WOW!! and thanks. Anne
On Sunday, September 25, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > It all started back in those wild and turbulent '70s. The gold rush > was on. Electronic mail was being sent from computer to computer using > FTP programs. You did read that right, it does say FTP. Every one > using a computer on the internet knew what Get> and Put> meant. But > this FTP stuff posed a gestalt or thing-in-itself problem for some > because FTP really does not care about stuff like from:, to:, subject: > etc. , and so forth. Heated discussions were taking place and things > were getting quite hectic. > > Then a person by the name of Abhay Bhushan sent out his manifesto that > began with the innocuous title: RFC561; > > Standardizing Network Mail Headers | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
