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Hello, Thanks to your museum. I learn how to get Skype onto my usb Flash drive. Best regards. Good luck for your good initiativ. Pierre.
View ArticleComment on First SMS Text Message in 1992? by Dovid Gross
WikiPedia is not a generally reliable source, because it does not have consistently reliable editors. While they have policies that encourage reliability, their core policy — of...
View ArticleComment on Quick History of ALL-IN-1 by Nigel
The big thing about ALL-IN-1 was that as well as offering all the above mentioned out-of-the-box functionality it was highly customisable and was effectively an application development platform. There...
View ArticleComment on First SMS Text Message in 1992? by David Ferris
Thanks David, it’s great to have you validate and enhance this piece. On Wikipedia, I agree that the anyone-can-edit-anything approach raises concerns about reliability. Nevertheless, I understand that...
View ArticleComment on DKIM vs. DomainKeys Confusion by Nate
DKIM does nothing to verify the sender of an email. It allows you to verify that the signor of the /content/ (not to be confused with the sender) is same as the domain asserted in the DKIM header. It...
View ArticleComment on Memories of ALL-in-1: Tony Redmond Recalls by The Making of...
[...] DEC software specialists we trained in this manner and the sales representatives they converted, ALL-IN-1 systems became a $1 billion a year business for DEC for 18 years in succession. When I...
View ArticleComment on Early Days of Corporate Email: Some Personal Observations by Steve...
I programmed starting in the 1970′s. We used the TSO send message command to communicate with other users and the operations group, who were usually sealed in the data center. This was the earliest...
View ArticleComment on Spam, Spammers, and Spam Control by David
I was also unable to download the report. Clicking the link took me to this URL: http://email-museum.com/?page_id=0&s2member_seeking=file-2009%2F03%2F322311_810-Trend-Micro-Spam-WP-19mc.pdf But...
View ArticleComment on Cost of Exchange 2010 Storage Not An Issue by Damien
Hello, thanks for the input above, our Exchange storage (Netapp) had used 4 times the space we thought we would have used over 2 years. In the end we removed the archive feature and some DAG’s to keep...
View ArticleComment on Early Days of Corporate Email: Selling the Idea by Nigel
I remember a great example of that hierarchical issue. I was working on X.500 in ALL-IN-1 around 1990 and a question was raised by a customer who was a very well-known UK based bank. What they wanted...
View ArticleComment on X.400 by Debbie
The first version of X.400 was developed during the 1980-1984 study period.
View ArticleComment on X.400 Standards Defined by Debbie
The first version of X.400 was developed during the 1980-1984 study period, NOT 1984-1988. (I was a participant during 1980-1984.)
View ArticleComment on X.500 Standards Defined by Debbie
While it is correct to say that X.500 was developed concurrently with X.400, the work began during the 1980-1984 study period.
View ArticleComment on X.400 Standards Defined by David Ferris
Hi Debbie, Thanks for raising that. I’ve changed the text to read “published 1984/88″ rather than developed during 1984/8. Please let me know if you’re not happy with this. Also, btw, please tell me...
View ArticleComment on X.500 Standards Defined by David Ferris
Thanks Debbie, I’ll fix the text to make it clear that I the dates refer to publication of the standards–please let me know if you find anything else that should be fixed.–David Ferris
View ArticleComment on X.400 by David Ferris
Thanks again Debbie, I hope I have clarified the text now to your satisfaction–let me know if not.–David Ferris
View ArticleComment on X.400 Standards Defined by Carl-Uno
The CCITT Recommendations were published every 4 years. The initial set of X.400 Recommandations came in 1984. An improved and expanded version came in 1988. A futher improved version, which was mostly...
View ArticleComment on X.500 Standards Defined by Carl-Uno
CCITT published the first set of X.500 Recommendations in 1988. Although implemention of the X.500 Directory Series in general was scarce, the X.509 became one of the most commonly implemented features...
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