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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:19:58 -0500
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Gabe Goldberg wrote:
> Hm, hasn't LISTSERV done this for a while... ;-)>
> -----
> CONTROLLING TRAFFIC ON THE NET
> Cisco Systems, along with Sun Microsystems, Informix Corp., Netcom
> Online Communication Services and others, is backing technology
> [...] that [...] moves an e-mail message through the Internet pipeline
> and then replicates it at the end of the process for multiple
> distribution [...]
 
I'm sure this sounds familiar to Eric.  Heck it even sounds familiar to
me :-)  But that was long, long ago on a network far, far away (Bitnet).
 
Their new-fangled product will copy Listserv's concepts much like IRC
did to Relay; but at least Listserv is strong and adequately established
to go a few rounds with any newcomers on the horizon.
 
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>

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