[ih] question re. early adoption of email

[Randy Bush]

> I was.  There was indeed a lot of uucp mail, but it came out of the
> unix community in the late 1970s which at the time had only a small
> overlap with the Arpanet community.  All you needed was an ordinary
> dialup modem, and someone who was willing to talk to you.

then you may want to adjust the dates in the history section of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

randy, who was also there