[ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?

Jack Haverty jack at 3kitty.org
Sat Aug 8 18:16:57 PDT 2015


Arrgh, you're right, slip of the fingers or neurons.  But NNTP probably
belongs in that list of ecosystem components too.

Haven't heard from Dave in a long time.

/Jack

On 08/08/2015 03:50 PM, Stephen Casner wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Jack Haverty wrote:
> 
>> - people who seized various needs and just did it without much debate or
>> discussion.  Dave Mills, for example, focused in on Time, and he and his
>> crew created NNTP, which is why your computer on The Internet today
>> knows what time it is.
> 
> NTP is time
> NNTP is network news
> 
> How is Father Time, by the way?  Still alive and well, I hope?
> 
>                                                         -- Steve
> 



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