From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andreww591@gmail.com (Andrew Warkentin) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 04:39:22 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] A Talk on Early Unix In-Reply-To: References: <20160630065609.GA20869@minnie.tuhs.org> <201606300710.u5U7AnW5019439@freefriends.org> Message-ID: On 6/30/16, Andrew Warkentin wrote: > On 6/30/16, arnold at skeeve.com wrote: >>> For example, I thought Unix was used at some point as the OS for some >>> of the ESS switches in AT&T, but now I think I was mistaken. >> >> I think that your initial statement is correct. At Georgia Tech AT&T gave >> us some 3B20s - vax size and larger, running System V, and I remember >> some >> discussion that they were used inside AT&T as switches. >> >> This, of course, is second hand information; perhaps some of the Bell >> Labs >> alumni can verify for real. >> >> Arnold >> > > > AFAIK the later ESS switches include a 3B machine but it only handles > some administrative functions, with most of the the actual call > processing being performed in dedicated hardware. > I really should stop using Gmail's web interface and find an MUA that has a "reply to list" feature and defaults to replying to the list for messages from the list (it would presumably need explicit filters to detect messages from some lists because not all lists use the List-Post header). It's annoying when I try to reply to the list and instead end up replying to only the poster (I know about the problems with Reply-To munging; I'm not sure why it isn't more common for MUAs to have a "reply to list" feature to better deal with lists that don't munge Reply-To).