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From: jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: POP (post office protocol)
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Date: 24 Feb 90 15:36:33 GMT
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> In article <1367@nih-csl.UUCP> tpersky@nih-csl.UUCP (Ted Persky) writes:
> >Would anyone have any information on POP, the Post
> >Office Protocol?  All I've been able to find is the RFC (918).
>...
> POP V3 is also known as MH/POP.  The MH user agent implements a POP3
> client and server.

The paper called "MH: A Multifarious User Agent" has a page about POP and
MH.  There's TeX source to the paper in the MH6.6 distribution -- the
papers/multifarious directory.  According to that file, the paper was also
published in "Computer Networks and ISDN Systems" 10(2), September, 1985.

--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
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