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:
>
>>Irrelevant. There  is no reason  to cater  to PROFS because  the network
>>standard is RFC 822 format mail.
>
>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.