[299] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
one commercial site's interpretation of NSFNET restrictions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Sutterfield)
Tue Mar 5 12:06:49 1991
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 91 11:50:29 -0500
From: Bob Sutterfield <bob@morningstar.com>
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: (James B. Van Bokkelen's message of Tue, 5 Mar 91 10:40:38 -0500 <9103051540.AA29560@ftp.com>
Sun has been distributing fixes via UUNET for several years,
particularly network-critical applications (sendmail, nameservers,
etc.) As I recall, they said at the time they began the practice that
they were cautioned against distributing the stuff from their own
machines, but had checked with the Appropriate Authorities who said
that there would be no problem with using UUNET as an intermediate
repository and distribution point.
Or maybe it was more pragmatic: they just didn't want to burden their
own Internet link with the traffic, and suffer the inconvenience of
managing their own anonymous FTP archive; and besides, UUNET is
well-connected for UUCP users as well as the ivory tower IP crowd,
which widens the availability.
