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>

Reply via email to