[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Vint Cerf]

MCI Mail had a postal delivery service. You could include a postal address,
a telex address, and email addresses in the MCI Mail "to:" format and we
would print and deliver hard copy to USPS or to overnight service. That
went into service in September 1983.
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On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:32 PM Scott Bradner via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> The post office did have a soft of email service for a while 0 you sent
> them an email for someone an they
> would print it out and deliver it as a regular postal mail - they put a
> lot of money into it but it did not last all that long
>
> I have read in multiple places that some people in the post office wanted
> to make the argument that email was
> mail and since the post office had exclusive authority to deliver mail
> then the post office should have exclusive
> authority to run email systems & deliver email - but I have never been
> able to track down any actual
> backup documentation to that effect - it would be great if anyone on this
> list knew anything solid about it
>
> Scott
>
> > On Dec 5, 2022, at 8:25 PM, Robert Stanford via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > I can't remember where I read this, but I'm sure I saw a reference to
> the US postal service once suggesting that they should be in charge of
> email and it should be a paid service.
> >
> > Regards
> > Robert
> >
> > On 6/12/22 05:31, Alejandro Acosta via Internet-history wrote:
> >> Hello There,
> >>
> >>   I think this is the right list to ask.  My apologies if my comments
> are not accurate.
> >>
> >>   I have heard a couple of times that there was a moment in the history
> of the Internet where private companies were putting pressure on the
> community indicating that the Internet had to be controlled by a private
> company, that it had to be in the hands of someone, not in their free will.
> Is it so?. I think these comments used to occur when there was a big
> failure in the network (I think I've heard mostly when there were
> congestion control issues).., probably in the mid 80's or so.
> >>
> >>   Am I crazy or the above actually happened? If so, I'm looking for
> information, documentation, references, etc. If I'm wrong nothing happen,
> just let me know :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >> Alejandro,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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