[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Scott Bradner]

The post office did have a soft of email service for a while 0 you sent them an email for someone an they 
would print it out and deliver it as a regular postal mail - they put a lot of money into it but it did not last all that long

I have read in multiple places that some people in the post office wanted to make the argument that email was 
mail and since the post office had exclusive authority to deliver mail then the post office should have exclusive 
authority to run email systems & deliver email - but I have never been able to track down any actual 
backup documentation to that effect - it would be great if anyone on this list knew anything solid about it

Scott

> On Dec 5, 2022, at 8:25 PM, Robert Stanford via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> I can't remember where I read this, but I'm sure I saw a reference to the US postal service once suggesting that they should be in charge of email and it should be a paid service.
> 
> Regards
> Robert
> 
> On 6/12/22 05:31, Alejandro Acosta via Internet-history wrote:
>> Hello There,
>> 
>>   I think this is the right list to ask.  My apologies if my comments are not accurate.
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>>   I have heard a couple of times that there was a moment in the history of the Internet where private companies were putting pressure on the community indicating that the Internet had to be controlled by a private company, that it had to be in the hands of someone, not in their free will. Is it so?. I think these comments used to occur when there was a big failure in the network (I think I've heard mostly when there were congestion control issues).., probably in the mid 80's or so.
>> 
>>   Am I crazy or the above actually happened? If so, I'm looking for information, documentation, references, etc. If I'm wrong nothing happen, just let me know :-)
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> Alejandro,
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