[11349] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Options (was Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Wed Mar 30 03:30:51 1994
To: gwh@crl.com (George Herbert)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 15:14:06 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: karl@mcs.com, poole@magnolia.eunet.ch, stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com,
com-priv@psi.com, gwh@crl.com
In-Reply-To: <199403282108.AA28852@crl2.crl.com> from "George Herbert" at Mar 28, 94 01:08:42 pm
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
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> Within the western world, and certainly the USA, "political" boundaries
> are no excuse. There _are_ political boundaries in networking, due to
> the slow painful evolution of the networking environment (remember when
> the AUP _meant_ something? sigh...), but those are becoming less ready
> excuses as time goes on.
Sorry to disagree, but political boundaries -are- important. For example
providing Internet services is -illegal- in a great number of countries.
Just consider a relativly civilised country like Switzerland: what we
are doing here has only been legal since 22 months.
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