UK Networkshop BOF [ Was Re: MailScanner and SA 2.51 and Bayes]

[David Lee]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> [...]
> Still not had any requests for anything to discuss in the BoF session at
> Networkshop.

[ "Networkshop" is basically an annual get-together of the people in UK
universities who run the networks. ]

Julian: I wonder whether the lack of response to your BoF [Birds of a
Feather] request for "Networkshop" is because the people who run
MailScanner are often not those who go to Networkshop?

Years and years ago, networking "applications" (FTP (as NIFTP), JTMP,
email) were a major component of Networkshop, and the people who did
networking were involved across the majority of levels of the ISO
seven-layer model.

But in recent years things have got more specialised (less "general
practice").  I've got the feeling that Networkshop is concentrating,
probably rightly, on just the lower layers (trnsaport/TCP and below),
whereas email services can take transport/TCP for granted.

(I used to go to Networkshop regularly, but I haven't been at all in
recent years.)

Networkshop a couple of years ago did a great advertising job of bringing
MS to the attention of university I.T. departments via their networking
folk.  But perhaps it isn't the appropriate forum for the non-advertising,
technical detail of MS developments and services.

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