On Friday, July 06, 2001 1:33 PM, Reynald I. Ngo wrote:
> At 10:20 PM 7/5/01 -0700, Andre John Cruz wrote:
>
> I guess that start of email is the UUCP protocol. Mainly used by
> fidonet during the glorius days of BBS. {=)
No. UUCP wasn't used by Fidonet. Fidonet had its own protocol for
transferring message packets defined in their own version of RFCs (FTSC).
They also have their own definition of message formats. There were and
probably still are, however, UUCP-Fidonet gateways which straddled between
the two and provided a means for inter-networking UUCP and FidoTech
systems.
I remember working with UUCP and FidoTech in the early 1990s under DOS and
then later on under Linux. My upstream UUCP feed was DLSU's vax1(?)
courtesy of Kelsey. It is still a useable technology for store-and-forward
email, although it has been overtaken by batched SMTP over intermittent
PPP.
my old UUCP bang path was : ...!dlsu!aliens!xenos
> >pero di ba noong 1960s meron nang email although
> >proprietary and of course hindi TCP/IP based protocol? i
> >think we can consider that as the start of email
Email systems existed even prior to UNIX as far as I can remember from
readings. And email transport didn't have to occur over TCP/IP much less
over a network. So I'm pretty sure that email cannot be attributed to
Microsoft or Netscape.
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