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End of the road for SMTP?
End of the road for SMTP?
Developed when the Internet was used almost exclusively by academics, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP, assumes that you are who you say you are. SMTP makes that assumption because it doesn't suspect that you're sending a Trojan horse virus, posing as a relative of a deposed African dictator to make fraudulent pleas for money, or hijacking somebody else's computer to send tens of millions of ads for herbal Viagra.
Posted by rshah on October 06, 2003| Comments (0)
The First Smiley :-)
The First Smiley :-)
The smiley :-) and its many variants are an important (and fun!) part of the worldwide online social culture -- allowing emotions to be conveyed in plain text. It has been in widespread use since the early '80s, when it was first proposed.
Posted by rshah on September 13, 2002| Comments (0)
How the Postman Almost Owned E-Mail
How the Postman Almost Owned E-Mail
A short history of the Postal Service's long relationship with electronic mail.
Posted by rshah on July 30, 2002| Comments (0)
30-Year Path of E-Mail
30-Year Path of E-Mail
Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer scientist at Bolt, Beranek & Newman, an engineering firm in Cambridge, Mass., sat down at his computer and wrote a relatively simple computer program that enabled electronic messages to travel from one computer to another.
Posted by rshah on December 06, 2001| Comments (0)
Present at the 'e'-creation
Present at the 'e'-creation
Q&A When Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail 30 years ago, he didn't think enough of his achievement to record the message or the date.
Posted by rshah on November 12, 2001| Comments (0)
E-mail has come a long way in 30 years
E-mail has come a long way in 30 years
Thirty years ago, a simple message launched a revolution in the history of human communications.
Posted by rshah on October 10, 2001| Comments (0)
First email message
First email message
See also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on December 15, 2000| Comments (0)
SendMail
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Proposal for Email Specification
Proposal for Email Specification
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
On the Origins of Internet Mail Species
On the Origins of Internet Mail Species
by D. Crocker
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Text and Fonts in Email
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)