[ih] The UCLA 360/91 on the ARPAnet/Internet

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Mon May 14 10:24:58 PDT 2012


John Levine wrote:
>> Amusing, but it's also very sad that, after four decades, we still
>> don't have reliable, secure, and private email in common use.
> I'm not surprised.  After 500 years, we don't have it for paper mail,
> either.

Well... it's not complete coverage, but there is International 
Registered Mail.  Domestically, Registered Mail is considered sufficient 
for shipping classified documents (at least it used to be, when I had to 
worry about such things).

Miles Fidelman



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