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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: [eff.mail.com-priv] What *IS* Current AUP Policy for Information Providers?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.034714.4004@eff.org>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 03:47:14 GMT
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- Newsgroups: eff.mail.com-priv
- From: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
- Subject: What *IS* Current AUP Policy for Information Providers?
- Message-ID: <9212121748.AA06273@tmn.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:48:04 GMT
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-
- I have been rereading com-priv and other files relating to the flap over
- Dialog as a commercial user of ANS in December of last year.
-
- On December 10th 1991 Steve Wolff wrote:
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- "For whatever reason(s), Dialog would not commit to guaranteeing that all
- their traffic would adhere to NSFnet Aceeptable Use; as an ANS customer
- apparently their alternative was to declare themselves "commercial."
-
- A bit later in the discussion someone pointed out that Dialog's customers
- had never been given the opportunty to pledge that they would make only
- research and education use of Dialog.
-
- Eventually the NSF blessed Dialog as an acceptable research and education
- user and in January ANS switched their status from commercial to R&E.
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- QUESTION: what is current NSF policy for information providers lie dialog
- that wish to attach to the NSFnet?
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- I surmise that if an information provider tells the world that it expects
- that the only use that will be made of its resources by its intenet
- connected customers is use in support of research and education, it is
- free to attach and send its bits accross the NSFnet bbone as AUP
- conformant?
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- Do I surmise correctly?
-
- And to name 3 info providers: Orbit, Dow Jones, and BRS. Are librarians
- reading this list able to telnet successfully to all three? On second
- thought maybe I should not restrict the last question to librarians.
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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