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[ih] "email"-- an opportunity.
- Subject: [ih] "email"-- an opportunity.
- From: LarrySheldon at cox.net (Larry Sheldon)
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:32:58 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On 6/5/2013 5:09 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>> From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net>
>
>> (y'all frightened the post office? that's funny.)
>
> Why? It was not without reason; check out the stats on first-class
> mail volume - it's estimated that it's taken a _huge_ hit from
> email.
I have always, since before I learned the term, thought Luddites were funny.
> On the subject of the term 'email' - I have this vague memory that it
> came from outside 'our' community, which would explain why it doesn't
> appear in archives. I think we just called it 'mail' or 'network
> mail'.
>
> I have some very old business cards from MIT/etc which give my email
> address, and one labels it 'ARPANet Address', another just 'Net'.
In the late 1980's I had a bang path address (I've forgotten the
beginning of it, maybe) ucbvax!well!car54 (seems like the "ucbvax" was
wrapped with a well known site at my employer that I was not supposed to
know about--"pttsomething" in curly braces?)
But I don't remember what I called it.
--
Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics
of System Administrators:
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to
learn from their mistakes.
(Adapted from Stephen Pinker)