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- From: mildram@xylogics.com (Doug Mildram )
- Subject: Internet (Globe article, restrictions?..)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.033834.22435@xylogics.com>
- Organization: Xylogics, Inc.
- Distribution: ne
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:38:34 GMT
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- Internet lovers: There was an informative article in Boston Globe (dec26'92)
- on p.1 !! and p.14 re: Internet ( "U.S. data highway gathers speed:
- ...Rules of road eyed for computer network") (Charles A. Radin)
- Informative especially for the Globe (or any newspaper at all), it painted
- the present Internet as the largest Existing Global Network. (more than U.S.!)
- It echoed that planners and users hope the govt (as it gets more involved)
- will keep/establish equal rights for all forms of traffic except illegal.
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- Which hints at, but doesn't mention the current Acceptable Use Policy
- of the NSFnet backbone: (maybe i'm over-generalizing the AUP here:)
- Commercial usage is not allowed; research/edu is the only guilt-free usage.
- It did mention that the National Science Net (and the FBI :-) were
- "concerned" about the basic unenforcability of actions and access.
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- True, I (as NEARnet member) can get ~anywhere, but aren't corners emerging
- WITH controlled routing...controlled by per-site (not per-content) setup?
- I heard one PIPEX customer regretting not paying extra for NSFnet access.
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- I'm curious for stories about unexpected walls...most are probably to/from
- nes commercial-net customers. ( p.s. Prodigy,MCImail are EXPECTED walls! )
- Sorry to twist subject, but is there an internet-to-mcimail gateway ? -doug
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