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CLINTON  ATTACKS CONGRESS TELECOM BILL
President Clinton has attacked the bill (now in a House-Senate conference
committee) that would drastically overhaul the nation's telecommunications
laws and encourage greater competition among local phone, long-distance and
cable TV companies.  The President objects to provisions that would allow
regional Bell companies to enter the long-distance market before the Justice
Department determines they are facing real competition in their own local
markets; deregulate cable TV rates; allow telephone companies to buy as much
as 49% control of local cable television companies; and relax restrictions
that prevent a company that owns a newspaper from acquiring TV and radio
stations in the same city.  (New York Times 28 Oct 95 p17)


From the "A Word a Day" list's periodic posting of comments and 
commentary, from a note submitted by Mitch Silverman:

> >
> >    Oddly enough, the word `emailed' is actually listed in the OED;
> >    it means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a
> >    net or open work".  A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived
> >    from Old French `emmaill"ure', network.  A French correspondent
> >    tells us that in modern French, `email' is a hard enamel obtained
> >    by heating special paints in a furnace; an `emailleur' (no final e)
> >    is a craftsman who makes email (he generally paints some objects
> >    like jewels and cook them in a furnace).

[the word is obviously related to the older word "mail", meaning "armor", as 
in "platemail".  Still, it's very interesting that this old term, "email", 
has connections to "net" and "network", again in their older senses. - mech]