[1] In the early stages of creation, McGowan and his fellow contributors got their inspiration from corporations such as Telenet and Western Union's EasyLink.

[6] With a primary goal of broadcasting MCI Mail services on an international level, he headed a lobbying campaign to fight for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval to expand.

[1] Upon approval by the FCC to begin working, McGowan knew he had to keep up with the challenges and threats that its biggest competitor, AT&T, imposed.

[7] Robert Harcharik was the President of Tymnet when he was recruited to MCI to develop what he called a "digital postoffice."

Cerf worked on the data networking related hardware and software applications of the MCI Mail.

[6] After an eight-year separation from the corporation to work with his Internet partner, Robert E. Kahn at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Cerf returned to MCI in 1994, where he served as Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy until 2005 when MCI was sold to Verizon.

MCI Mail also supported read receipts and charge codes, allowing for cost accounting for email.

At one point there was a print facility in Hawaii and they also ventured into the international space with a location in Brussels, Belgium.

The Data General Eclipse MV/8000 was the first in a family of 32-bit minicomputers using their AOS/VS operating system and supported the notion of lightweight "tasks" as well as processes.

[6] Long before spam became a problem on the Internet, Oppenheimer broadcast the planned table of contents, giving the recipients the opportunity to opt-out of receiving the newsletter.

[9] In the mid 1990s, the Internet became a commercialized platform offering free email services by top industry vendors such as Hotmail.

[6] This shift rocked MCI Mail's electronic message delivery and receiving rates, as customers were more inclined to use services available to them with no charge.

[6] In addition to an increase in industry competition, the modernization of the fax machine proved more efficient and valuable to customers than MCI Mail's services.