[411] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: "Internet Accessible Dialouts"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Fri Mar 22 13:46:48 1991
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 13:26:08 EST
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
not clear what the question is.
if it's
modem -> terminal server -----> terminal server -> modem -> bbs
bigu.edu nsfnet littleu.edu
then that's clearly bad policy on someone's part; dialouts cost money,
there's no accounting for use of the backbone, random people from far
away use your modems to hack someone else's stuff, etc etc.
most bbs's don't have outdials accessible to users, not at least without
some kind of accountability and $$ changing hands.
so the situation reduces to
modem -> bbs -----> internet
where the bbs user is more or less accountable, perhaps hasn't read
all of the terms and conditions of all the possible networks their
packets might travel over today because some good old boy plinked
a wire somewhere so that routing changed, and has not likely to be
funded by any plush gov't grants.
or perhaps
internet-user ----> bbs (with other modem users there too)
this would be way cool, but I don't see it happening now exc. with
the free bbs's. like it would be nice to be able to get onto well,
world, PORTAL (HEY D00D), m-net etc. without having to use a modem.
but is this in appropriate use of the network? i would hope so.
(because it would be likely to expand and extend the network to more
reasonable people and enrich it some. and it's a com-priv kind of
thing to do.)
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