[182] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: is fixing a broken TCP acceptable use?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Nov 17 21:07:59 1990
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 1990 19:52:50 CST
From: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
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> This is just one issue of "Unix Today!". I would venture a guess that only
> a small percentage of the readership have ever heard of "acceptable use".
So what if a small percentage of the readership has ever heard of "acceptable
use." The only people who need to be aware of it are those users of the
"protected" networks. Having a domainized [?] e-mail address isn't a violation
of anyone's policies, only by sending unacceptable traffic across a protected
network can such policies be broken.
Perhaps the more important point is who is breaking the policy. Think of it
in terms of contracts, if you haven't don't have a contract saying you'll
abide by the rules how can you be held responsible for breaking them? It
is quite possible the responsible party is one of the folks in the middle.
What if instead Unix Today! had listed MCI-Mail, or Compuserve addresses
instead? In order to get a Compuserve, or MCI account I don't need to sign
a NSFnet acceptable use policy (or at least I didn't when I got mine 10 years
ago.)
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Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO 63132-1806
Domain: sean@dranet.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
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