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Email Turns Thirty

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-money-fast dept.

milquetoast writes: "The NYTimes has an article on e-mail's 30th birthday. where would we be without it?" Wearing out a lot fewer delete keys, that's where. The NYT also has an interview with Tomlinson, and a speculative article suggesting email will kill the fax machine (not any time soon). Tomlinson may think he gets a lot of email, but he doesn't.

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  1. Re:Spam's Birthday? by Radnor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's some links for information on that legendary spam. I remember sitting down to read my newsgroups that day and seeing this message in _every_ newsgroup I subscribed to. It was strange to see such a thing back then!

    http://www.skypoint.com/members/gimonca/usewar.htm l http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/Legal /Cases/Canter_Siegel/