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.