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

[Brian E Carpenter]

fwiw the proceedings of IETF 1 (1986) list the "Net Address" for
each participant (of which only hw at gw.umich.edu would be conformant
today). By IETF 6 (April 1987), the heading is "Email address".

BTW - the IETF site has no proceedings for IETF 5 ("February 4-6, 1987;
Moffett Field, California, USA; NASA Ames Research Center").

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/compuserve-trademarked-the-word-email/

Regards
   Brian

On 05/06/2013 04:04, Nigel Roberts wrote:
> 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/
>>
>>
> 
>