<div dir="ltr">actually, I asked for permission to link MCI Mail to NSFNET/Internet in 1988 and the Federal Networking Council gave permission. We set up the link in 1989. Several other email providers also joined: Compuserve, Telemail, OnTyme and possibly others. Legislation followed in a couple of years.<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Larry press <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larrypress@gmail.com" target="_blank">larrypress@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Jonathan Grudin <<a href="mailto:jgrudin@microsoft.com">jgrudin@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'd be interested. I visited USC/ISI in 1993 and remarked that commercial traffic seemed to have begun and was told emphatically that it was because enforcement was lax.<br>
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I recall a really neat email newsletter that claimed to be the first<br>
commercial publication on the Internet. As I recall it was called "The<br>
Computerist" and it was written by an AI researcher (named Ken?).<br>
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Ring a bell?<br>
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Larry<br>
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