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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Internet is too big....CI$ is much smaller.
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:36:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.183651.4129@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <jdecarlo.488.724440187@mitre.org> <1992Dec18.101853.22386@actrix.gen.nz> <1gt8mbINN5ns@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1gt8mbINN5ns@agate.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec18.101853.22386@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- > >IBM in the US probably can't handle to volume - and cost - of the Internet
- > >problems...besides, they want these things to be done locally by the national
- > >versions of the various IBMs......
- >
- > I griped to the Compuserve problem report ID (from my Internet account...) that
- > cutting off Internet support was a stupid idea. The reply was that it was
- > less a policy decision not to support Internet users, but more to
- > do with IBM's agreement with Compuserve, and the lack of any such agreement
- > with "the Internet". I don't quite understand what that means, particularly
- > when IBM has many Internet type addresses, but maybe someone else has some ideas.
- >
- > Richard Stanton
-
- Sounds like Compu$erve's connection to the Internet is there to serve CI$
- users....NOT to provide access to CI$ forum operators from the Internet. This
- is the sort of thing we can expect from for-profit operations like CI$. They
- will deliberately spike things like IBM supporting Internet users - because
- they want people to join CI$. (Fat chance!!!).
-
- Steve
-
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