For what its worth, a little MailMan history: I worked with Jon Postel of ISI in Marina Del Ray when I was designing the original MailMan 1982-1983. He was one of the designers of SMTP and the standard for mail names [EMAIL PROTECTED] formats. I didn't have Internet access at the time, but I wanted to use the SMTP standard in the event that VA got connected to IP. I took Jon's standard, and sent the files as a batch to him for debugging...
Since I didn't have TCP access at the time, but rather point-to-point 1200 baud autodial, I created the SCP protocol to simulate the open/close/read/write TCP protocol. I then built a bootstrap capability in the SMTP HELO command as an extension that would allow nodes to declare what protocols they could use. Thus, new protocols could roll in to the network gracefully, one node at a time, and the nodes would adapt to the most advanced protocol available. Jon taught me a lot about scalability, decentralization and network design which I factored into the early DHCP design, as well as my subsequent thinking. P.S. I had planned to be able to send messages to patients with the syntax P.patientname, by the way. I have no idea how much of all this survives to this day, but I amazed at how persistent that system is. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
