[Bigbang-user] Fwd: Fwd: Re: SF-lovers discussion list

[Niels ten Oever]

just saw this gem underneath on ietf at ietf.org, this will probably make
all you mailinglist nerds rejoice :)

also:

http://www.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/2012-March/002102.html

Cheers,

~n.,


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Subject: Re: SF-lovers discussion list
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 15:51:25 -0800
From: Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net>
Reply-To: dcrocker at bbiw.net
Organization: Brandenburg InternetWorking
To: Vint Cerf <vint at google.com>, IETF-Discussion list <ietf at ietf.org>

On 12/18/2016 3:45 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
> does anyone on this list recall when and who set up this list? My
> recollection is that it was one of the earliest mailing lists after
> email was developed by Ray Tomlinson et al.


Arguably, Jon Postel's distribution of RFC announcements was the earlist
'mailing list', but it was a one-way, multicasting mechanism.

I believe the usual credit for first 'discussion' mailing list is to
Msggroup, mostly operated by Stefferud, for discussing the use of email.
  Like Jon's effort, it initially required an almost manual process with
sndmsg and interactive, real-time response to receive-side server issues.

I think Header-People was next, for discussing email technical issues.

SF-Lovers was probably the first non-technical (if not, non-geek...)
list.  But I am not remembering the details of its operation (who, when,
where, etc.)

d/

-- 

  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net


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