[2002] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
The Dialog Situation - a brief report from the field.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow)
Fri Jan 17 12:40:33 1992
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 09:39:39 PST
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
I called up Dialog's chief counsel, Bob Simmons, this morning.
I found out a few things that may be of interest:
1) When Dialog signed up to ANS, ANS didn't tell Dialog that their status
as a COmmercial customer would prevent them from having "full" Internet
access.
2) Dialog published in their customer newsletter that they were now
connected to the Internet and and all you had to do was "telnet dialog.com".
3) Dialog found out by customer complaints they did not have "full"
Internet access when users couldn't access the service with telnet dialog.com
4) Before Christmas, Dialog requested that ANS change Dialog's status from
COmmercial to R&E. ANS has not made the change from CO to RE as of this day.
Geoff
