Mon, 6 May 1991 08:09:52 PDT
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On Mon, 6 May 91 00:18:58 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>On Sun, 5 May 1991 00:30:00 PDT Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA> said:
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>>Irrelevant. There is no reason to cater to PROFS because the network
>>standard is RFC 822 format mail.
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>It is? Where is that written? Sorry, but until a statement is issued by
>the appropriate network authorities, which will probably never happen
>(er, I meant "not before OSI" of course :-) ), PROFS is as much of a
>network standard as RFC822. . . .
On NetNorth, PROFS **was** acceptible back in about 1986 but by about 1989
RFC822 was the only acceptible standard - and later (of course) NetNorth, as
a network, was phased out in favour of CA*Net based on the TCP/IP protocol
suite which don't know diddly about PROFS.
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