Early Email History
Comments reminisce about historical email limitations like the 500-mile rule, UUCP bang paths, ARPANet mail, and early protocols, often drawing parallels to modern email systems and clients.
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Reminds me of the people who couldn't send email farther than 500 miles.https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
heh. i remember they said this about email then later the web.
Losing your email for spamming is how it worked in the original old internet.
Interesting, and good reminiscencesI wonder what email system it was being used at the time (I mean, was it even over TCP? SMTP/IMAP?)
If you think that's crazy, check out how email worked on ARPANet: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email#ARPANET_mail
Old ideas, new context! Its like BBS relay mail!
I remember seeing a service that did this over email a couple decades ago.
Except for the time when email was plain text only.
During the old days lots of things were easier to get.Semi related to this - Ian Goldberg famously had the email address n@ai (Ian backwards if you missed it) - which caused problems for many mail clients and validators. Iād imagine cypherpunks.ca is easier to use. I saw similar things with one of the Balkans in 1998 - I think it was Croatia, where some government officials had name@hr email addresses.<a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2002-Jan
Maybe web based email such as hotmail was there earlier?