[66] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Information about new book on knowledge representation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Oct 31 13:02:35 1990
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 1990 11:47:21 CST
From: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
To: com-priv@psi.com
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> I think it's a little bit out of line to give Usenet readers the
> impression that they should e-mail their VISA number around the
> network to order books. For one thing there is a fairly explicit
> NSFnet backbone dictum which says that it is not cool to send invoices
> over the network, that's just too commercial. Besides, who knows
> where that message will sit in a spool directory of some evil site
> grepping every message for visa numbers.
There are a couple of folks already accepting Mastercard/Visa/etc for payment
for a variety of services that have some part of the transaction occur across
the NSFnet. The two I'm most know the most about are a research service,
and an article delivery service.
The wisdom of sending your MC/Visa number is another question, but I think they
may also accept PO's or set up an account if your institution uses them alot.
Who knows you might actually even be able to order those nasty ISO standards,
and have them delivered across the net.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO 63132-1806
Domain: sean@dranet.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
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