Rich Alderson wrote:
> "Richard B. Gilbert" writes:
>
>> Somehow, I can't get excited about a product that solves problems I
>> didn't have when it was introduced, and which, ten or so years later, I
>> still don't have. SMTP and POP may be "obsolete" but they have been
>> delivering mail for the last 25 years or so and may be good for another
>> ten or twenty years. DECnet Phase IV may be obsolete but it does the
>> job I need done!
>
> SMTP is a bit over 25 years old, POP just over 20.
>
> Just keeping things straight.
>

Make that about 26 years old for SMTP. RFC 821 is dated August 1982!