[ih] propagation of early email?

[johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)]

In article <4FBC1398.4030109 at meetinghouse.net> you write:
>Thanks to all who've provided some great history!  Now, just to add to 
>the question... Unix was developing pretty much in parallel with the 
>ARPANET.  Anybody happen to know when UUCP based file transfer and email 
>started up?

I was certainly using it by 1981 when I connected to usenet.  uucp
escaped into the world in v7 Unix in 1979, mail usage was immediate,
usenet pretty soon after that.

R's,
John, cbosgd!ima!johnl

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