[12171] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: "Arizona Lawyers Form Company..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sun May 8 15:52:33 1994
Date: Sun, 8 May 94 14:55:49 EDT
From: stpeters@bird.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: walkerl@iscmed.med.ge.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
>From: walkerl@iscmed.med.ge.com (Larry Walker)
>Sort of buried in the middle of the Business section of Saturday's (5/7/94)
>New York Times was an article by Peter Lewis titled "Arizona Lawyers Form
>Company for Internet Advertising" (!)
[...]
> "The first product Cybersell will advertise throughout the Internet is
>"a health product, super-oxygenated water," Ms. Seigel said yesterday. "You
[...]
> "In an interview yesterday, however, Ms. Seigel rejected the idea of
>special advertising zones, and said Cybersell would post its messages to
>all Internet users.
[...]
>Was that the sound of a gauntlet being thrown down that I just heard?
Now, now Larry, these are nice folks. If they send you something, you
should be polite and reply.
Last time the victim of netribution was the innocent small provider,
who got it from both ends. However, now they have their own site.
Even though there is as yet no IP route to them, you can still send
them UUCP mail through PSI:
$ mail -v -s test postmaster@pericles.com </dev/null
Null message body; hope that's ok
postmaster@pericles.com... Connecting to pericles.com (tcp)...
220 uu3.psi.com Sendmail 5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet ready at Sun, 8 May 94 13:1
2:32 -0400 gripes to postmaster@uu3.psi.com
>>> HELO crdras.ge.com
250 Hello crdras.ge.com, pleased to meet you
>>> MAIL From:<stpeters@crdras.ge.com>
250 <stpeters@crdras.ge.com>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<postmaster@pericles.com>
250 <postmaster@pericles.com>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 Ok
>>> QUIT
221 uu3.psi.com closing connection
postmaster@pericles.com... Sent
(Their MX record shows two mail exchangers, pericles.com at preference
5 and uu3.psi.com at preference 10. Absent a direct IP route, they get
mail through PSI.)
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
