On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>
> > Before Philip (or someone else who actually knows) answers, I wouldn't
> > mind taking a guess:
> >
> > EXperimental Internet Mail
> >
> > I have very little confidence in that guess.
>
> You do yourself an injustice. It was "EXperimental Internet Mailer" in
> fact. That was the best I could come up with when I was starting out. At
> that point it *was* experimental - I wanted to see if the ideas I had
> for extending Smail's approach actually worked. Like biff, somebody
> discovered about it and wanted to start using it, and told other people
> about it...
>
> I'd better put this in the FAQ.
Please don't ! Some PHB-type will read that it's still "EXperimental" and
refuse to let us install it... ! (ISTR shaking that particular tree once in
thae past already... :-)
DHS
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