[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-07, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with you that X.400 was flawed, but the some of the history was not
as reported.
>
> X.400 had many issues, but as one who was in the industry before email had
> general traction, it was easy to see the tipping point: business cards.
> SMTP-style addressing gained traction when new collections of cards
> overwhelmingly used SMTP-style addressing, rather than X.400, despite the
> existence of gateways between the two addressing regimes.
>

That probably had something to do with the fact you can at least
fit a SMTP address on a business card. :-)

Simon.

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