I thought that you might be interested in seeing what
deigners and developers of Mailing List Managers e.g.,
LISTSERV must consider when they analyze the direction
of their products.
 
 
I have abstracted (out of context) "mail"-related items
from the August 1995 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS --
 
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      http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/
 
     3. The IESG approved or recommended the following seven Protocol
        Actions during the month of August, 1995:
 
        o  Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent Checklist be published
           as an Informational RFC.
 
        o  SMTP 521 reply code be published as an Experimental Protocol.
 
        o  SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart be published
           as an Experimental Protocol.
 
        o  SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining
           <draft-ietf-mailext-pipeline-03> for consideration as a
           Proposed Standard.
 
     5. One Working Group was created during this period:
 
           Receipt Notifications for Internet Mail (receipt)
 
      (smtpext)  o  SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
                    <draft-ietf-smtpext-8bitmime-04.txt>
      (smtpext)  o  SMTP Service Extensions
                    <draft-ietf-smtpext-extensions-05.txt>
      (mailext)  o  SMTP 521 reply code
                    <draft-ietf-mailext-smtp-521-04.txt>
      (notary)   o  The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting
                    of Mail System Administrative Messages
                    <draft-ietf-notary-mime-report-05.txt>
      (mailext)  o  SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart
                    <draft-ietf-mailext-checkp-02.txt>
      (mailext)  o  SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining
                    <draft-ietf-mailext-pipeline-03.txt>
      (822ext)   o  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part
                    Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples
                    <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-conf-02.txt>
      (smtpext)  o  SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
                    <draft-ietf-smtpext-size-02.txt>
      (822ext)   o  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part
                    Four: Registration Procedures
                    <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-reg-01.txt>
      (none)     o  Post Office Protocol - Version 3
                    <draft-myers-pop-pop3-05.txt>
      (mixer)    o  MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping
                    between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME
                    <draft-kille-mixer-rfc1327bis-01.txt>
      (mixer)    o  Equivalences between 1988 X.400 and RFC-822 Message
                    Bodies <draft-ietf-mixer-bodymap-01.txt>
        RFC1820 I   (mailext)  Multimedia E-mail(MIME)User Agent Checklist
        RFC1830 E   (mailext)  SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission
                               of Large and Binary MIME Messages
        RFC1844 I   (mailext)  Multimedia E-mail(MIME) User Agent
                               checklist
 
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