At 26 October, 2020 Ron Wheeler wrote: > If you are very old, you will remember when networking was young and e-mail > was sent over dial-up connections that connected only once or twice a day. > The email system has to deal with the historical world where connections > where not "always on" so a successful send does not imply anything about > time.
All of the good tech started with "uu": uucp, uuencode, uunet :P