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On Feb 3, 7:28 pm, "Mike" wrote:
Remember typing in all those addresses in the email for routing?
I never had to do that. On cserve, the nodes were designed for all traffic
to go to and from Ohio (their headquarters). 99% of the email that
originated from a cserve member went to a cserve member, so it was only a
matter of transferring it from one mailbox to another... on the same
network.

I got it. It was much more fun to send messages cross country. :)

My duties had more to do with managing various file libraries, and
moderating forums. I was one of those guys that thought the www (netscape,
yahoo, etc) would never catch on.... oops. :-)

True story. I remember sitting in a meeting with Ed DeCastro then
head of
Data General and he thought that email would serve no purpose beyond
internal memo use within any company.

DeCastro was a cheap *******. He was so afraid of having "his"
technology stolen he was almost paranoid. He figured that since he stole
technology from someone else somebody was going to steal "his"
technology.

I was laid off from DG around the time Ron Skates cam in to get the
expenses below the decreasing revenue.