[SML] weird timing of post was Re: elite production?

[billn at peak.org]

> I'm at a university and have been since forever. (1979)   I've had the same e
> mail address since we started having e mail and will continue to have the same
> address until I die.  Cornell let's me keep it when/if I retire. (as happens
> with everyone here).    They also let students keep their Cornell address when
> they graduate.  For students, it just becomes a forwarding address but I will
> still be on the university system
. that way Cornell always knows where their
> graduates are and how to hit them up for money.
> It helps to be at a place that had one of the first five  NSF supercomputers
> centers back in the mid 80's when NSF was developing its network and
> expanding/taking over the Defense department's network.

I still have an address with my old employer, but never use it. I don't recall
if I used it back during the dark ages of DARPA/ARPA.

Bill