Subj : Re: fsxNet feedback
To   : N1uro
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon May 17 2021 07:32 am

-=> N1uro wrote to Blue White <=-

 N1> We all know Phil Karn came up with the original NOS. He and Brian
 N1> Kantor were very close friends (as I was with BK). When Phil wrote the
 N1> original TCP/IP stack for the PC (aka: NOS) and put ax.25 in it, BK
 N1> came up with the idea of sharing mail messages between sites and that's
 N1> how NNTP came to be. BK was also the lead in the original SMTP RFC and
 N1> invented ipencapsulation which is half of what we use today as VPNs.

If memory serves, Phil worked for Qualcomm and wrote qpopper, the POP3 
server I used for years.


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