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		hollerith on May 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you ... in what sense was Usenet built out of email? only thing that comes to mind is re-using some of the syntax of RFC 822.

recoiledsnake on May 28, 2012 [–]

I think it was more at a conceptual level rather than technical. It's like sending a e-mail to a public mailing list that anyone can view, join or reply to.

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