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From: cire@CISCO.COM (cire|eric)
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Subject: Re: Networks considered harmful
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Date: 19 Dec 89 03:53:00 GMT
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I think the point that McCarthy was making about FAX was not so much
that Email could do it better or whether FAX could do it better but
the ubiquitous nature of the interconnect.  With FAX all you need
to communicate with someone is get their phone number.  Almost everyone
these days (at least in our part of the world) has one of those.  The
same thing can't be said for Email addresses.

Yes Computer based telecommunications has a great deal of more utility
than FAX but I don't think that is the point.  You must first make the
connection before all that starts making a difference.

The comments about PR were quite excellent and certainly play a part.

-c
cisco engineering