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Re: An interesting question from can.canet.d

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Mon Dec 16 08:16:46 1991

To: shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 08:13:27 EST
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>

->Is it true that there are now some gateways that are blocking traffic based
->on the perceived commercial-ness or non-commercial-ness of the IP addresses?

As far as I know, the blocking is done not on anyone's "perception", but
rather on a flat statement by the source of the traffic that it will not
guarantee to comply with NSFNET Acceptable Use.

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