[ih] first use of "email" (redux)

[Nigel Roberts]

My recollection based on TOPS-10 from 1977 and RSX-11 and VAX/VMS from 
1980 is that the term email *wasn't* in general use.

We called it "MAIL" without "e".

(VAXmail and MAIL-11)

On 06/04/2013 04:23 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> On 6/4/2013 3:44 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> Apropos recent discussions of the "inventor of email"....
>>
>> Just came across this:
>> http://public.oed.com/appeals/email/
>>
>> An appeal from the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary, seeking any
>> use of the term earlier than 1979.
>
>
> I've sent them a query, to find out their basis for citing 1979.
>
> I also just search the msggroup and header-people archives for the 
> 1970s and could not find an occurrence of "email" or "e-mail". This 
> surprised me.
>
> d/
>
>