25 years ago in reason.

• Position: Citings

"The USPS has indicated that it would agree to legislation limiting its participation in electronic mail systems. Private telecommunications firms had worried that the subsidized Postal Service would compete with them in sending messages directly from one computer terminal to another."

--Robert Poole Jr. and Eric Marti, "Growing Competition in the Mail Market"

"Lying perilously close beneath the surface of the discussion is the assumption that if we need the oil badly enough we ought to take it by force. Apart from its immorality, such a doctrine fails of its own economic weight. According to...