[108] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Is SunFlash misuse of the network? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Philip Miller)
Sun Nov 11 20:47:03 1990
From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 90 19:34:51 CST
gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore) writes:
>
> Let's do a thought experiment.
> Let's have them clean up the small percentage of addresses that traverse
> the NSFnet. Now, how should they address mail to these people? Or
Isn't really more complex that this. I find nothing in the content of
SunFlash that makes it prohibited use of NSFnet to me, and academic,
government sponsered researcher for whom receipt of this information helps me
to do my funded research. Thus for Sun to actually do this, they would have
to not only determine the routing of each mail (and some of that is dynamic),
but also something about the status of the recepient. How are they to do
that? The fact that the address ends in .edu or .com may be a clue, but is
hardly a trusted criteria. Should Sun require some "magic statement" by each
proposed new subscriber that now gets them off the hook? The point is that it
is very, very difficult to do the job right. It is not as easy as Erik's
reply to me with the analogy of cross border commerce.
> should the list maintainer simply refuse to send the mailing-list to them?
> (This begs the question of how they discover that an addressee receives mail
> that traverses the NSFnet, and how they keep up with changes in that status,
> but let's just deal with the issue of what alternatives they have.)
>
-phil
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