[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Craig Partridge]

Was that the service where Dave Clark figured out it was possible to send
an email of a sequence of page feeds and have MCI mail a ream of paper
cheap?

Craig

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 9:48 PM Vint Cerf via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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.
> v
>
>
> 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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