John Robb is thinking about the future of the US Post Office: "We should use the tens of billions of $$ needed to upgrade the PO to a secure environment on building a totally electronic delivery service that requires many fewer employees (10 to 15 thousand instead of 300,000)."

I haven't used it yet, but in Canada the national mail carrier has their own electronic mailbox program called epost.

What about spam from epost? From the short section in the FAQ dedicated to Privacy and Security: "In the Mailers section you will find a section called Advertisment Preferences where you can specify the advertisments and promotions that interest you. So if you only select sports, you will only receive information about that topic."

The US Postal service has an Post Electronic Courier Service: "a Web-based file delivery and e-messaging service" Internet Week profiled some new technology initiatives at the USPS on August 13, 2001.
2:55:50 PM  

Ran across an interesting quote from Tim Berners-Lee while visiting the Any Browser campaign site that ran in the MIT Technology Review in July 1996:

"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."

I went to locate a link to the story bu remembered that after a recent redesign, Technology Review removed all the sample articles published before January 1999. Though you can still find the articles online through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: The Web Maestro.
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