Reply to post: Grumble grumble

'I crashed AOL for 19 hours and messed up global email for a week'

Tim99 Silver badge
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Grumble grumble

When I started using electronic mail in the 1970s we knew our recipients personally - If the message was important, we used to telephone them to see if they had received it; or to ask them to log in and read it. I only had to make a *couple* of transatlantic calls...

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