March 1997 / Inbox

Pine Came First	After reading "E-Mail Grows Up" (December State of the Art), I want to point out that long before Netscape began thinking about the POP3 protocol, people at the University of Washington developed Pine (Program for Internet News and E-mail).
Moore's Law Revealed	"The Birth of a Chip" (December) by Linley Gwennap was a pleasure to read.
Mastering NT Domains	In "Unearthing Cairo" (November Special Report), Mark Minasi writes that an NT network of six domains requires 30 trust relationships, and an organization with 50 domains requires an unmanageable 2450 trusts.
No Standards	Regarding "New Software: Dead or Alive?" (December Inbox), there are well-defined standards for mailing, such as RFC-822 and x.400, which are ignored by even the likes of Microsoft.
A Girl with a Cat	The final question of the interview with Sangam Pant, vice president of engineering at Lycos (December Bits), looks naive in its ignorance of one of the great mysteries of nature: vision.
Photoshop Review Reviewed	I am surprised by the technical errors and omissions in your review of Adobe Photoshop 4.0 ("A (Re)Touch of Genius," December).
Fixes	In "Apple Achieves Notebook Parity" (December Bits), the clock speed of the PowerBook 1400's 603e PowerPC CPU should be 117 MHz, not 177 MHz.

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