[11163] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Wed Mar 23 17:23:09 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 21:24:12 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: karl@mcs.com
Cc: matthew@echo.com, fidelman@civicnet.org, karl@mcs.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Karl Denninger's message of Tue, 22 Mar 1994 11:23:02 -0600 (CST) <m0pjAAQ-000BZXC@mercury.mcs.com>
Odd Karl, I've never heard anyone but you say that this was unethical
or even a problem. My impression always was that quite simply the line
is drawn at providing routed IP addresses to the net to others.
Is there any other authority this derives from or is this just your
personal opinion? I'm just curious. Something I'm thinking of is
"lynx" which provides a character-cell interface to WWW, though "term"
is a good example.
How different is term from someone telnet'ing into a shell account
host, doing a "setenv DISPLAY them:0.0", and just firing up xmosaic on
the shell account host? Should that require full provider status? (Why
they might do this begs the question, but I know people do this,
perhaps their site is cranky and simply refuses to put up the xmosaic
binary, and probably other things, no newsfeed or whatever, enough to
justify purchasing access somewhere else.)
-Barry Shein
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