[ih] Invention of term 'email'

[SM]

Hi Noel,
At 12:21 13-06-2012, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>where Chomsky is saying a student of his invented the term 'email' in
>1978. Dunno if this is accurate, but FWIW I checked my collection of IENs and

There was a discussion about the "invention" a few months ago ( see 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-smtp/current/msg00152.html 
).  The discussion ended at 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-smtp/current/msg00071.html 
The "invention" is a copyright of a somputer program for electronic 
mail system called "EMAIL" ( 
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search_Arg=Ayyadurai&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=FgMj1TMBIHWxOrn8bBBj7UbwOW7&SEQ=20120220122136&SID=1 
).

Regards,
-sm