[10001] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ba.com and some thoughts on the ethics of choosing host name
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Rabe)
Thu Feb 3 13:51:07 1994
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 13:48:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Rabe <rabe@ba.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Sorry to hear of your concern. Let me explain as clearly as I can.
Firstly, ba.com is owned by Bell Atlantic and has been set up following
all the applicable Internet rules and procedures.
I, Eric Rabe, am a full time employee of Bell Atlantic. I am director of
corporate relations, and you may take my comments to reflect the views of
our company. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal do.
This node, ba.com is a Bell Atlantic internet site. We post documents here
including legal filings made by Bell Atlantic, news releases and other
materials we think might be of interest to the Internet community. We
have just added a gopher to make it easier for Internet users to find
what might be helpful. (Check it out.)
Ken Deutsch handles the technical adminstration of this site for
us. He often posts Bell Atlantic materials on the Internet for us and,
when he does, he does so with my authority. Ken works for Issue Dynamics,
and is so identified when he posts to the Internet.
Bell Atlantic has a long relationship with Issue Dynamics which handles a
number of external affairs issues for us...and does a very good job at
it. On this site, however, their role is solely technical.
There is certainly no intention to mislead anyone here. We are simply
trying to be as efficient as possible...and we hope helpful to the
Internet community.
Eric Rabe Voice: (703) 974-3036 Fax: (703) 974-0591
Bell Atlantic | Internet: rabe@ba.com
On Wed, 2 Feb 1994, Gordon Cook wrote:
> Maybe I am the only one asleep at the switch, but about a month ago when Eric
> Rabe started posting from this and other lists using a ba.com address and
> offering documents on the bell atlantic TCI merger, I thought they were Bell
> Atlantic employees. That ba.com was a bell atlantic owned and operated
> internet host. That ba.com was bell atlantic's direct corporate presence on
> the net. That statements from ba.com were direct bell atlantic corporate
> statements which might be modified only at some embarressment to bell
> atlantic.
etc....
