On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Tim Jenness wrote:
> Added the following to cvs:
>
> + email (should that be in obsolete now?)
Very probably, yes. In fact, yes, otherwise we look positively
antedeluvian:
> In a manner similar to ordinary mail, all electronic mail (email)
> requires both a name to identify the recipient and address for the
> recipient -- a \textit{username} and \textit{sitename}. Together these
> are referred to as an \textbf{\textit{email address}} or a
> \textbf{\textit{mailbox}}
Even in a February 2000 document, that's a remark that looks a bit out
of touch. The only thing that's useful about that package is that it
reminds us that Starlink is still nominally maintaining the astronames
database (still?). But if so we should be serving it out on a web page,
or loading it into one of AstroGrid's registries (or _I_ should be...).
I think we should move this package into obsolete/ in the repository, no
question. Tim -- you put it in, do you want to do the honours?
It's a great pity, though, that we don't have the history for that
document. I remember early versions of that SUN were quite useful for
describing how to navigate the `::', `%' and `!' of old-style email,
and it would be wonderful as social history. Eeeeee, lad, remember when
email was hard?
Norman
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