"according to Ayyadurai, an RFC, or Request for Comment, is not 'a computer program or code or a system,' and so is presumably unfit to be historical evidence"

"according to Ayyadurai, an RFC, or Request for Comment, is not 'a computer program or code or a system,' and so is presumably unfit to be historical evidence" This comes as a surprise to anyone who has had to debug actual email code before. Very recently I had to reference RFC 561, 821 and 1341 when dealing with a bug breaking attached CSV files. He may have invented an "email" program but he certainly did not invent email as we currently know. History will not remember this pretender.