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Re:RSS is wonderful by gorgoiler on Saturday October 23, 2021 @01:57PM (#28970767)
We had a set of proprietary incompatible email-like services.

AOL and Compuserve — let’s use numeric addresses so it’s kinda like phone numbers, right?!

Also, whatever MSN tried to be when it first escaped from the lab.

Didn’t Novell have some kind of email-substitute messaging product that they tried to jam into their proprietary TCPIP competitor, as well?

Re:RSS is wonderful by genewitch on Sunday October 24, 2021 @01:58PM (#28980348)
All from at least 2.5/3.0 on was [email protected] for email. They were also not good at security, as you could spoof emails coming from any domain if you used their smtp servers directly - but they had regular email addresses. I never used compuserve or prodigy, however ICQ used numerical user IDs.