[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Vint Cerf]

yep
v


On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 4:44 PM Craig Partridge <craig at tereschau.net> wrote:

> 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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