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From: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu (David R  Falkenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Electronic mail using EtherTalk and SMTP
Summary: Does a real AppleTalk mail protocol exist yet?
Message-ID: <3fbdf584.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 88 16:21:00 GMT
References: <3fb3f279.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> <589@poseidon.ATT.COM>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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In article <589@poseidon.ATT.COM>, ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) writes:
> There are about $2500 good reasons not tose MacTCP.  Clearly a better solution
> is needed (read: really implement ISO layering as in AppleTalk), but at that
> price...
> 
> =Ned Horvath=

Actually $2500 buys you a site license to MacTCP (i think).  I guess
it isn't FREE like NCSA's stuff or other packages, but at least it's a
standard that keeps really neat networking programs from stomping on
each other.  Here in the academic world, $2500 buys us a copy of MacTCP
for each one of our 300 Macintoshes, and so it doesn't seem like that
much.  Then again not verybody is in our situation.

Has anybody in the "real" world thought of creating an AppleTalk
Mail protocol standard?   I realize that companies like Microsoft,
TOPS, Symantec, CE Software (QuickMail)  all use different protocols
& all claim their own is the best.   Isn't it about time that Apple
(or collection of folks along with them)  design a REAL standard
mail protocol for AppleTalk?  There seems to be a lot more experitise
out here in USENEt-land concerning network protocols than in some
isolated developer island.  Is apple taking a "wait and see what
emerges" attitude toward endorsing or creating a new protocol?

-dave falkenburg
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Dave Falkenburg @ University of Michigan Computer Aided Engineering Network
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