[ih] Invention of term 'email'

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Jun 13 20:02:34 PDT 2012


    > From: Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com>

    >> They do have rules about 'public use', IIRC. I don't know if
    >> 'header-people' would count, for them.
    
    > Dunno - a few hundred folks got the note, which presumably counts for
    > something.

That might do it, actually - some early books would have had press runs
smaller than that.

And I see that for the recent update, they're also using wills, which
although they are public, were not 'publicly distributed' in the classic
sense.

	Noel



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