[ih] deterioration of email (was Re: clever usc creation)

[John Levine]

It appears that Jack Haverty via Internet-history <jack at 3kitty.org> said:
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>It's not just email that has deteriorated.  Lots of other pioneering 
>services introduced on the Internet have similarly grown to involve 
>large populations of users today.  But like email, that growth has 
>occurred by a fragmentation of the initial "universal" connectivity 

Are you saying that email doesn't interoperate any more, or that people 
are fragmenting into other communication systems?

The first is clearly not the case, while the second is.

R's,
John