[1164] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Nice commercial application for the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Goldstein Phone +1-202-357-9)
Mon Aug 12 13:19:28 1991
To: Dennis Ferguson <dennis@mrbill.canet.ca>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Aug 91 19:44:25 BST."
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 11:04:55 EDT
From: Steve Goldstein Phone +1-202-357-9717 <sgoldste@cise.cise.nsf.gov>
Dennis,
and that's not all...
What about hotels' and other meeting places' advertising the availability
of Internet connections (plus terminals) at their sites? Might that not
make them more competitive to attract meetings of communities who depend
on Internet connectivity? From time to time we get inquiries about how
to get connectivity for a 2-week conference at such-and-such a place,
not on the beaten path, but surely adccessible to telephone links.
Also, there is a hostel at one well-known European laboratory which
accepts reservations in Internet messages. Let's not get into details,
for fear of upsetting the management with publicity they do not want,
but I just wanted to let people know that the idea is quite practical.
--SG
>I am forwarding this from an Ontario local news group since
>it mentions a possible application for a commercialized
>Internet which I haven't seen mentioned before and which appeals to me.
>
>I am hoping the company can make an arrangement for service. In my
>opinion Internet-accessable hotel reservation systems would be extremely
>convenient and useful, particularly if they were widely available,
>but I know I'm biased. What would be more interesting to know would
>be the hotel's opinion after a year or so's worth of experience with
>trying to operate a system like that.
>
>Dennis Ferguson
>
> From: marcelm@joymrmn.uucp (Marcel Mongeon (Admin))
> Newsgroups: ont.uucp
> Subject: What options available to connect to Internet?
> Message-ID: <1991Aug7.150925.22846@joymrmn.uucp>
> Date: 7 Aug 91 15:09:25 GMT
> Organization: The Joymarmon Group
>
> What options are available for a full internet connection for
> a commercial company in Hamilton, Ontario. I have seen some
> reference to ONet, is this something I might be looking at.
>
> The reason for the request is that although my company is not
> in a computer related field (we are a hotel actually), we would
> like to experiment with allowing rlogins to a front-end to
> our reservations system. We find that we get a lot of reservations
> from academic institutions and these could be made easier by
> letting them contact our computer directly.
> --
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