Talk:X.400

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You say x.400 more commonly known as "E-mail". is not exactly true, there were mail applications that used x.400, but also Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)using x.400. Both applications were developed by Bull under contract for the IBM RS6000 and the GCOS system. 72.222.231.215 (talk) 04:27, 24 March 2008 (UTC)Richard Holmstedt, rholmstedt@cox.net[reply]

Does anyone have a photo of an old (late '80s) business card, with an X.400 email address on it? They were hilariously unworkable: the email address was so vast it had to be printed in flyspeck-three font and still filled half the card. 213.249.204.90 (talk) 09:29, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the note that says: In one famous example, a letter reached air-crash survivor Helen Klaben after being addressed only "To the woman that spent 45 days in the arctic". The citation in the note is for the 1964 book by Helen about her story, long before X.400 was created in the early 1980's. I'm assuming the email was sent long after the book? I'd love to read more about this email. I tried a Google search but the results are only for this wikipedia article. @Maury Markowitz: You added the note about this email as part of your edits on 2018 July 5. I'm hoping that you have some kind of reference or citation about the actual email? -- Netjeff (talk) 06:06, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think you may have missed the fact that this was an example of the "real" postal service - i.e. snail mail. - Snori (talk) 09:03, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, this is an example of one of the types of "miracle deliveries" that drove the design of the addressing system - ironically as it turned out. Maury Markowitz (talk) 10:49, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yes. I read the note at the bottom of the page, and didn't follow back up into the article where the note appears. Just in case, I just updated the note to mention postal service for future confused reader. You can probably guess what I'm about to ask next ... ☺ Any citations for the famous letter delivered by the postal service? -- netjeff (talk) 04:42, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]