<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Nobody goes to the Senate without winning an election. This self-promoting lunatic is running as a Republican in Massachusetts against Elizabeth Warren. His chances of winning a lawsuit are better than winning that election. Dude has’t even won the primary, which will be held on Sept. 4. <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 5, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Łukasz Bromirski <<a href="mailto:lukasz@bromirski.net" class="">lukasz@bromirski.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Jack,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Watch out, this self-promoting lunatic is going to US Senate and he may sue you at some point in time for misrepresenting his own version of history:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-of-email-appeals-ruling-that-tossed-his-libel-suit-against-techdirt/" class="">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-of-email-appeals-ruling-that-tossed-his-libel-suit-against-techdirt/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">;)<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">-- <div class="">./</div></div><div class=""><br class="">On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:34, Jack Haverty <<a href="mailto:jack@3kitty.org" class="">jack@3kitty.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span class="">On 07/05/2018 05:11 AM, Vint Cerf wrote:</span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="">what was the time frame for CSS Mail?</span><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="">v</span><br class=""></blockquote><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">In 1968/9 I was a regular user of CTSS and remember using MAIL. It</span><br class=""><span class="">wasn't new then, just another command in the system.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">If "email" is considered broadly as electronic communication, I remember</span><br class=""><span class="">using IBM JCL in 1967 to send messages from one human to another, via</span><br class=""><span class="">punch cards - e.g., asking the operator to mount a tape.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Prior to that, of course there was the telegraph and telegrams. Perhaps</span><br class=""><span class="">that would be "electric mail".</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">I was in Paris recently and spent several hours at the Musee des Arts et</span><br class=""><span class="">Metiers, essentially a museum of technology. One section is devoted to</span><br class=""><span class="">"Communications". I noticed one display cabinet containing a machine</span><br class=""><span class="">that was somehow used to "allow several telegraph operators to share the</span><br class=""><span class="">same wire" - so I guess Multiplexing has been around since the 19th century.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Apparently humans need to communicate, and as each new means of</span><br class=""><span class="">transporting messages comes around, someone figures out a way to use it</span><br class=""><span class="">to talk with others.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">There's lots of interesting old stuff preserved in those glassed-in</span><br class=""><span class="">display cases.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">When you look into one of those cases and see a well-worn and carefully</span><br class=""><span class="">preserved piece of history, and your immediate reaction is "Hey, I used</span><br class=""><span class="">to use one of those!" -- that's when you know you're getting old.....</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">/Jack Haverty</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">_______</span><br class=""><span class="">internet-history mailing list</span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a></span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history" class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history</a></span><br class=""><span class="">Contact <a href="mailto:list-owner@postel.org" class="">list-owner@postel.org</a> for assistance.</span><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></div>_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a><br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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