Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Networks Considered Harmful...
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.215944.14536@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8912121824.AA01191@buitb> <25086@cup.portal.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 89 21:59:44 GMT

In article <25086@cup.portal.com> Nagle@cup.portal.com (John - Nagle) writes:
>      Well, in the real world, I understand that electronic mail is
>on the decline, and is being replaced by fax.

As the man said, "it depends on which real world we are talking about". :-)

Don't forget that one reason why fax has caught on in places where electronic
mail hasn't is its appeal to technophobic managers:  it's a way of sending
mail electronically without having to use a keyboard (after all, keyboards
are for secretaries and other underlings, not for managers).
-- 
1755 EST, Dec 14, 1972:  human |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
exploration of space terminates| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
