[9498] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Advisory Committee on the NII & Email addrs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Gingery)
Thu Jan 6 23:33:18 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 21:32:00 -0700 (MST)
From: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
To: Harry Saal <harrys@smtplink.ngc.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu
In-Reply-To: <9401062006.A23525@smtplink.ngc.com>
On Thu, 6 Jan 1994, Harry Saal wrote:
> Stapleton@bpa.arizona.edu wrote:
>
> Even those who are may vastly prefer the insulation of not being
> E-mail-accessible to the world, though, and I couldn't blame them. Can
> you imagine what would happen if all of the K-12 students and teachers in
> the country decided to sieze the terminal and dash off a note to lobby the
> *one* K-12 educator on the Council?
>
> ****From HJS:
>
> I don't get it. These hypothetical students and teachers surely can all sit
> down and compose a letter or postcard and mail it if they wish. Why would
> the advisory committee (of ***all*** people) wish to expect a higher level
> of inaccessibility for email addresses?
And when you stop to think of it, handling by secretarial personnel
can't be harder with E-Mail than with snail mail!
Bruce Gingery lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu
