[SIGCIS-Members] Was email really already 75% of ARPANET traffic by 1973?

[Alexandre Hocquet]

On 7/29/20 11:18 PM, Win Treese wrote:
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>> On Jul 29, 2020, at 4:22 PM, <thomas.haigh at gmail.com> <thomas.haigh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The figure is also in Wikipedia, without a real source, so I'm acutely aware that it's one of those factoids that historians and journalists will find somewhere like Wikipedia or the Hobbes Timeline and then copy, thus creating a "reliable source" that Wikipedia can then cite to support the information. It's like a time paradox.
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> Of course, there’s an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/978/.


If we know which Wikipedia article exactly, the best thing to do would 
be to add a [[citation needed]] flag, or even better, to link to this 
SIGCIS thread in the artcile talk page with a short explanation. If you 
point me to the article, I can do that as a contribution to restore 
XKCD's faith in Wikipedia :)


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