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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Internet: The origins
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Date: 17 Oct 90 15:01:57 GMT
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In-Reply-To: malc@tahoe.unr.edu's message of 17 Oct 90 05:01:53 GMT

In article <4775@tahoe.unr.edu> malc@tahoe.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) writes:
   In article <*QY%WN#@rpi.edu> sigma@pawl.rpi.edu (Kevin J Martin) writes:
      gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
         In article <1990Oct14.055739.7971@nmt.edu> pefsnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu (Paul Ford) writes:
            [Internet to be administered by IBM, possibly due to
             Houston Chronicle trash?]

   Is this confirmed?  Where did the original information appear?

See The New York Times, Monday, July 16, 1990, pps. D1 and D4, for a
copyrighted article by John Markoff entitled "High-Speed Data System
Is Discussed" about plans by ANS, a nonprofit formed by IBM, MCI, and
MERIT.  MERIT's response (clarification?  co-press release?)  was
issued the same day, and should be available from them.

Don't flatter yourselves, it had nothing to do with the Chronicle
flap, except in that Usenet has contributed to the traffic growth
they're trying to manage.