johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk writes:

> The mail protocols SMTP and POP date back to an era of 110 baud teletypes and
> computers with 32kwords of memory.

SMTP was designed in the early 1980s. The implementation on which I worked ran
on a 2MW DEC-20.

POP was designed on the back of a napkin in a Palo Alto-area restaurant in the
late 1980s. It never saw a Teletype, having been designed with the Macintosh
and (*hxack*tpfui) Windows in mind.

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