Re: courtesy titles

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From: Ian Johnston
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 22:36

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On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 21:46:24, Craig Cockburn <craig@SiliconGlen.com> 
wrote:

: In message <cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-KW6LdK7gjVoP@localhost>, Ian Johnston 
: <ian.usenet@talk21.com> writes

: >As I recall, Oxford first got an IP feed in 1990, maybe 1989.
: >Otherwise it was Janet to nsfnet-relay in London...

: We were certainly sending emails from Edinburgh around the world in 3rd 
: year (85/86) as it was part of a Communication course project, so I'm 
: sure that Edinburgh's connectivity with the rest of the world was 
: already well established by then. Email certainly had a long reach and 
: the PSS pad had a huge number of gateways.

But that didn't necessarily need a direct IP feed. The normal route 
for odd email until widespread IP was through the UUCP gateway at the 
University of Kent or through the gateways in London for ARPANet or 
NSFNet.

Ian

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From: ian.usenet@talk21.com (Ian Johnston)
Newsgroups: scot.general,ed.general,uk.local.lothians,uk.comp.misc,soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: courtesy titles
Date: 9 Nov 2002 22:36:02 GMT
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