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Aucbvax.4476 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Oct 15 23:32:24 1981 Re: No headers on wiz mail;request for mailer info >From James.Gosling@CMU-10A Thu Oct 15 20:53:19 1981 The mail standards are documented in RFCs (Requests For Comment) from the network information center at ISI. To get a copy of an RFC just ftp to NIC, log in as user "anonymous", password "guest" and retrieve the file <NETINFO>RFCnnn.TXT . nnn is the RFC number, some useful ones are:

RFC733 Mail message format standard RFC754/RFC799 Discussions of internet addressing RFC759 Internet mail transfer protocol RFC780 Mail transfer protocol

Someday the Unix community should make the painful switch from the current haphazard mail message format to a more reasonable one, such as the one for theARPAnet. James.

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