[1483] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm).
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Thu Oct 10 14:05:26 1991
To: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>
Cc: backman@ftp.com (Larry Backman), com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 91 11:06:49 EDT."
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 14:01:19 -0400
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Aside from the announcement...........how about usage?
While I believe that the early adopters right now are going to be
the internetworking service providers, PSI et al, so that we can keep
abreast of all those NSFNet/ANSNet crashes and disk fsck'ings, and the
occassional scheduled outages of our net.....
:-)
The upcoming use will be very commercial: field service organizations
fixing xerox machines, FileServers', NSS's, etc, getting stock quotes,
my wife telling me to get home "now!" (when I don't answer the phone and
I tell her the 8pm traffic was real bad, she doesn't believe me).
Marty
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Commercial enterprises with Internet access have always been permitted - even
encouraged - to post hype-free product announcements (especially for products
that make the 'net work better). While I thought the RadioMail announcement
a trifle flowery I didn't find it objectionably so but of course that's a
judgment call and reasonable folk may differ. -s
