[106] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Is SUNFLASH misuse of the network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com)
Sun Nov 11 20:04:38 1990
To: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Cc: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 11 Nov 90 18:04:51 -0600.
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 90 19:51:17 -0500
From: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com
>So, the jist of this is that PSI is NOT willing to consider offering
>service to the regionals for the "out-of-NSF-guidelines" networking
>because the economics are too complicated.
I would agree that the economics are complicated, but
I'd bet a simpler explanation is that none of them have approached
PSInet or UUNET. Why pay for something you are presently getting
for free as long as you maintain the veneer of "suitable use"?
Still, I can't imagine the routing issues involved in seeing that a
mailing list like SUNFLASH only traverses the "commercial" backbone.
