[1393] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: CSnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smb@ulysses.att.com)
Sat Sep 21 21:00:39 1991
From: smb@ulysses.att.com
To: Dave Crocker <David_Crocker@Pa.dec.com>
Cc: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>,
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 91 20:59:32 EDT
(It should be noted that Berkeley had just begun to do
some back-door relaying, via uucp, but it was a source of discomfort.)
Ah, yes. I remember discussing CSnet with the other founders of netnews.
We agreed that the difference between the two was quite representative
of the difference between grad students and faculty. When we wanted to
set up a net, we wrote some code and handed it out to as many folks
as we could. And then we sweated out the risk that someone was going
to pull the plug on our valuable ARPANET gateway. When faculty members
wanted to start a net, they did it right -- they wrote a grant proposal
and actually got some funding for things like equipment. (You wouldn't
believe what the original netnews autodialer was like... Let it suffice
to say that it never went near Part 68 of the FCC regs.) Not only
that, they had permission to connect the ARPANET. We were impressed...
--Steve Bellovin
