[101] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Is SunFlash misuse of the network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bob@MorningStar.Com)
Sun Nov 11 19:02:42 1990
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 90 17:43:50 EST
From: bob@MorningStar.Com
To: gnu@toad.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, sun!sunvice!flash@uunet.UU.NET
In-Reply-To: John Gilmore's message of Sun, 11 Nov 90 02:07:09 PST <9011111007.AA22689@hop.toad.com>
Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 90 02:07:09 PST
From: gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore)
They could force each site to set up a uucp link (if it's a Unix
site). For a few addressees, there might be a twisted addressing
syntax that would cause the message to go via back-roads which
manage to avoid the NSFnet...
This is entirely reasonable. In fact, it's the way we conduct our
business (all our customers run UNIX too, just like all of Sun's).
99% of our software shipments and our customer support contacts are
via private UUCP links, the rest are via tape or FAX or paper mail.
The addressing the marketing and support people see isn't twisted, but
you wouldn't like to see my private pathalias database.
We do it, Sun is only a difference in scale. Absent a pervasive
content-insensitive internet, private links are safe, secure, and
noncontroversial.
