Internet Mail Consortium
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The Internet Mail Consortium (IMC) was an organization between 1996 and 2002 that claimed to be the only international organization focused on cooperatively managing and promoting the rapidly expanding world of electronic mail on the Internet.{{cite web|url=http://www.imc.org/ |title=Internet Mail Consortium |accessdate=2012-05-29 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529014601/http://www.imc.org/ |archivedate=May 29, 2012 }}
Purpose
The goals of the IMC included greatly expanding the role of mail on the Internet into areas such as commerce and entertainment, advancing new Internet mail technologies, and making it easier for all Internet users, particularly novices, to get the most out of the growing communications medium.{{Cite web |date=2022-09-29 |title=Is Email Engagement a Brand Signal to Search Engines? |url=https://conversionspree.com/digital-marketing/email-marketing/is-email-engagement-a-brand-signal-to-search-engines/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |language=en-US}} It did this by providing information about all the Internet mail standards and technologies. They also prepared reports{{cite web|url=http://www.imc.org/reports.html |title=IMC Reports and Presentations |accessdate=2005-11-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529014601/http://www.imc.org/reports.html |archivedate=May 29, 2012 }} that supplemented the Internet Engineering Task Force's RFCs.
Headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, the IMC was founded by Paul E. Hoffman about 1996{{cite web|url=http://www.imc.org/ |title=Internet Mail Consortium |accessdate=2012-05-29 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19961106161559/http://www.imc.org/ |archivedate=November 6, 1996 }} and ceased activity in 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.imc.org/ |title=Internet Mail Consortium |accessdate=2012-05-29 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526193000/http://www.imc.org/ |archivedate=May 26, 2015 }}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.imc.org/ Official Website]
Category:Internet governance organizations
Category:Internet Standard organizations
Category:Internet-related organizations
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