Jacob_Palme_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (04/07/84)
--- Query message ---
Date: 6 April 1984 08:41-EST
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>
Subject: summary of user interfaces
To: Jacob_Palme_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET @ MIT-MULTICS
Is there any way to emulate COM over the net, for example by having a
daemon mailbox which sends out messages to people who want to see them
and accepts messages from people updating their profile?
--- Response to the above question ---
A very good question. There is an obvious and well identifiable need
to be able to use the network for operations like:
- Adding or deleting a person from a conference/distribution list
- Requesting the sending of certain messages, identified by MESSAGE-ID
or retrieval question like "all messages in the conference CC written
after the date DD".
- Creating a remote local conference/distribution list and adding or
deleting mailboxes to it.
We have during the last years in the European GILT project defined
a standard for the interconnection of computer-based message systems,
which includes also operations like those described above in a standar-
dized manner, so that they can be performed automatically on any CBMS
accessible via the GILT interface.
GILT is at present under implementation on a number of European hosts.
GILT is not compatible with the ARPANET mail protocols. I have however
been thinking about defining a way of extending the ARPANET mail protocols
with GILT operations, I even wrote a paper about it for the IFIP CBMS
conference in Nottingham, the paper was however not accepted because
I sent in four papers and they would only accept one paper from each
contributor to the conference.
Here are the titles of some documents which may be of interest:
Title Size Order from
The GILT approach to CBMS interconnection 10 pages (1)
Adding GILT operations to ARPANET and
CCITT message transfer standards 8 pages (1)
You have 134 Unread Mail! Do You Want
To Read Them Now? 10 pages (2)
Computer conferencing is more than
Electronic mail 7 pages (1)
Use of GILT facilities in communicating
message systems 6 pages (1)
COM/PortaCOM conference system, design
goals and principles 13 pages (1)
GILT - interconnection of Computer Based
Message and Conference Systems 200 pages (3)
How to order the documents; send your POSTAL address to:
(1) Cally_Bark%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA.
(2) To be published in proceedings of the IFIP CBMS conference in
Nottingham, May 1984.
(3) Duesseldorf_university%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA.
There is no charge for the documents (1), since document (3) is
rather large, I guess the University of Duessedorf may need to
charge a fee for copies.