Re: sob@harvard.edu is not long for the world

Lloyd W <lloyd.wood@yahoo.com> Wed, 14 August 2024 23:23 UTC

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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:22:59 +1000
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Rumours of your death have been great exaggerated... by the subject line.

It's a real sob story.

Lloyd Wood 
lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk

> On 15 Aug 2024, at 06:30, Scott O. Bradner <sob@sobco.com> wrote:
> 
> Tomorrow, August 15, Harvard is going to kill sob@harvard.edu.
> 
> I normally would not broadcast an address change notice to this list but the address sob@harvbard.edu
> is present on quite a few RFCs, including the most referenced RFC of all time :-).
> 
> A few weeks ago, I received notice that since my last teaching contract with the university ended on
> July 1st their automated processes were going to delete my university accounts on August 15th.
> 
> sob@harvard.edu happens to be the oldest email address at Harvard University, I created it when
> I set up the first university email aliasing system in the early 1980s. (Before then I was sob at HARV10,
> SOB at WJH12 (bitnet) and *!genrad!wjh12!sob)
> 
> But the university values process over history (or at least the automaton that is doing this does)
> 
> so it goes
> 
> So, if you want to get in touch with me, please use sob@sobco.com <mailto:sob@sobco.com>
> 
> Thanks
> Scott

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