[TUHS] Berkeley CSRG Building

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> Eric refers to that time as "the email format of the week" and sendmail was
> created to allow him to more easily handle the different formats.  By then
> there was the DARPA 733/822 format (user at host), Berknet (host:user), UUCP
> (host1!host2...!hostn!user) being sources at UCB, as well as crap showing
> up from the IBM Educational System, CSNET and various other places trying
> be exchanged.

Small correction. CSNet didn't happen until the mid-80s, by which time
sendmail was firmly entrenched in the BSD world. Circa 1987/1988, I was
the Unix sysadmin at Emory U., and we got a CSNet connection via Georgia
Tech. It required a leased X.25 (!) line and a special board to put
in one of our Vaxen. There was a driver for it for 4.2BSD but we were
running 4.3. Ron Hutchins at GT and I ported it over to 4.3BSD.

Around that time I did some work with Ease, which was a prettier
language for writing sendmail config files; the sources, including
my mods to it, are in comp.sources.unix somewhere.  I wrote a sendmail
config file *from scratch* using it.  As a result, the Morris worm
passed us by.  :-)

Arnold

P.S. I have *literally* forgotten more about sendmail than most
people ever know. :-)