On 10/4/2018 11:22 AM, Jack Haverty wrote:
> Your criteria are a good description of what, IIRC, it meant to "be on
> the Internet" back in the 80s.
merely because of your phrasing...
    To Be "On" the Internet
    March 1995
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1775/?include_text=1
d/
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Dave Crocker
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