> From:         June Genis <GA.JRG@STANFORD>
> Well, we'll never know how hard it is to change RFC822 unless we
> try.  It seems pretty clear to me at this point that while several
> of the proposals for new headers remain worth pursuing in their own
> right, we are never going to resolve are most basic problems without
> agreement that that the current standard is inadequate and needs to
> be revised.  Does anyone know how to get that ball rolling?
>
> /June
 
I got the following private correspondence that might help:
 
> From: "Frank J. Wancho" <[log in to unmask]>
> To:   Phil Howard <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: mailing lists
>
> Phil,
>
> You could start with someone at SRI-NIC intimately familiar with the
> RFCs and their implementation, Ken Harrenstein ([log in to unmask]), or
> the current long-time author of the TOPS20 mail system, Mark Crispin
> ([log in to unmask]) to whom I forwarded your initial
> query on this subject.  Alternately, you can send a message to
> [log in to unmask] and be prepared for an onslaught of
> responses from a variety of "experts," both real and imagined.