On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 08:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 07:37 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > > I agree with Pete. Internet mail, at minimum, means ALL mail outside > > your localhost or LAN. In that context, it may simply be a synonym > > for what we have come to call email. > > I think this is true. At the time the RFC was written, there were > several non-Internet large-scale networks around, hard though that may > be to believe nowadays. Bitnet was one I remember (I won't describe > how > it worked for fear of upsetting those of a sensitive nature :-)
AOL, and don't forget Compuserve and Prodigy, the latter of which, if I recall correctly, was originally a Sears & Robuck product. -- Art Alexion MIS x3075 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
