[ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?

[John Levine]

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>The oldest RFC on my laptop disk that uses "email" (actually "EMail") is
>RFC1123 (1989), and for "e-mail" (actually "E-Mail") it's RFC1724 (1994).
>Somebody with a complete RFC corpus to hand could easily grep -i for earlier
>occurrences.

grep says the first E-mail was RFC 1048 in 1988:

          or by E-mail as: JKREYNOLDS at ISI.EDU

The first email appears to be in RFC 1060 in 1990:

   Email: JKREY at ISI.EDU

   Email: POSTEL at ISI.EDU

RFC 883 has the intriguing abbreviation EMAILBX but that turns out to
stand for error mailbox.

R's,
John


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