Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:40:09 MDT, Ozzie Paez said:

> No apologies needed, but it does bring to light the issue of how much will
> be permanently lost due to the speed at which technology has progressed.
> Over the last five decades computer equipment became obsolete so fast that
> they were never old enough so that a museum or historical institution would
> want them.

It's not just the hardware.  The following is a piece of mail I never expected
to see, much less not from Dave Crocker himself...

Subject: Historical moment:  Marking a generational transition
From: Dave CROCKER <dhc () dcrocker net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:47:09 +0200
To: SMTP Interest Group <ietf-smtp () imc org>

One way of distinguishing between generations is to discover something that was 
common to the older generation is vague or even unknown to the newer generation.

Last night an active, knowledgeable working in the Internet protocol 
applications space said that he knew about RFC 2822 but not RFC 822...

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net

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