Re: 1983 and Internet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dave CROCKER <dcrocker () bbiw net>
Date: September 14, 2009 10:39:58 AM EDT
To: Craig Partridge <craig () aland bbn com>
Cc: dave () farber net, "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>, Steve Crocker <steve () shinkuro com 
>, Richard Bennett <richard () bennett com>, Gordon Peterson <gep2 () terabites com 
>, John Shoch <shoch () alloyventures com>, Harold Burstyn <burstynh () iname com 
>, Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>, Paul Robichaux <paul () robichaux net 
>
Subject: Re: 1983 and Internet



Craig Partridge wrote:
> The CSNET project, in particular, remembered that because they'd  
> prepared
> carefully and had an TCP/IP SMTP server that worked pretty well, a  
> number of
> folks fixed initial email problems by forwarding all their outbound  
> email
> to the CSNET relay and letting CSNET sort it out...  Of course, the  
> CSNET
> relay software was not so mature that it took this sort of abuse  
> easily and

Craig is being kind about the state of the software.  I had added  
initial support TCP/IP to MMDF, which meant that it could relay  
between Arpanet and TCP/IP nodes.  Then I left.

The code was extremely immature and needed substantial work by a core  
set of MMDF-related folk, including CSNet and Army Materiel Command.

It's probably also worth noting that Vint gave UDel a contract --  
separate from CSNet -- to run an Arpanet/Internet email relay site.   
Since I left before it was needed, I didn't hear how well that worked  
out...

d/

--

 Dave Crocker
 Brandenburg InternetWorking
 bbiw.net




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