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[ih] Invention of term 'email'
- Subject: [ih] Invention of term 'email'
- From: sm at resistor.net (SM)
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:47:55 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
Hi Noel,
At 12:21 13-06-2012, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>where Chomsky is saying a student of his invented the term 'email' in
>1978. Dunno if this is accurate, but FWIW I checked my collection of IENs and
There was a discussion about the "invention" a few months ago ( see
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-smtp/current/msg00152.html
). The discussion ended at
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-smtp/current/msg00071.html
The "invention" is a copyright of a somputer program for electronic
mail system called "EMAIL" (
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search_Arg=Ayyadurai&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=FgMj1TMBIHWxOrn8bBBj7UbwOW7&SEQ=20120220122136&SID=1
).
Regards,
-sm