[81214] in Cypherpunks
Re: Webpage picketing (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (frissell@panix.com)
Wed Jun 4 23:21:28 1997
From: frissell@panix.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 22:39:56 -0400
To: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>, Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>,
cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Cc: trei@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
In-Reply-To: <199706041452.JAA01618@einstein.ssz.com>
Reply-To: frissell@panix.com
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At 11:33 AM 6/4/97 -6, Peter Trei wrote:
>'Publically funded network backbones'? Can you name one (in the US)?
>NSFnet and ARPAnet are long dead. Back when they were active, there was
>considerable debate about the legality of commercial speech on the
>net, and earlier, doubts about the legality of any traffic (including
>private email) which was not in support of government funded research.
>(the first big mailing list, the SF-Lovers Digest, had a
>quasi-underground existence for many years due to this worry).
The Net is technically and legally a private value-added network. The last
bit of the then existing backbone was privatized the weekend following the OKC
bombing in April 1995. (No relation)
DCF
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