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 -- ------------------------ 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 -- co-owner INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L [log in to unmask] Welcome to the "Mmgt. By Groping Network" 814 863 1843 31 Shields Bldg. -- Penn State -- University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA