If it hasn't already been noted to this list, Dave Crocker's Op Ed piece in the Washington Post was published this morning:
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/a-history-of-e-mail-collaboration-innovation-and-the-birth-of-a-system/2012/03/19/gIQAOeFEPS_story.html

Dave Crocker also says
    The emailhistory.org site is now public.
Please suggest to folk that they take a look at it and that they subscribe to the discussion list:
< http://emailhistory.org/mailman/listinfo/mailhist-discuss>

The fickle reporter/editor of the Post decided not to publish the piece Tom Haigh worked hard on or two other piece she had people working on.

My own less polished screed is at
   http://walden-family.com/bbn/email-invention.html