[846] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Software Sales via e-mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Gunshannon)
Tue Jun 18 12:10:08 1991
From: bill@tuatara.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
To: scott%hsvaic.boeing.com@rutgers.edu (Scott Hinckley)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 7:54:01 EDT
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9106171850.AA22626@hsvaic.boeing.com>; from "Scott Hinckley" at Jun 17, 91 12:57 pm
According to Scott Hinckley:
>
> However, if a site B knew that site A was frequently sending megabytes of
> encrypted, profit making, data to sites C, I could see B wanting a piece of
> the pie. (and if it passes through B,D,E,F,G,H, and I on the way...)
>
I believe you are confusing USENET with the INTERNET. When I send Email to
another site on the INTERNET, it doesn't go thru anybody. And if you are
sending megabytes thru your USENET UUCP neighbors, you will probably find
yourself without a connection pretty quick. (Probably the third time you
overflow your neighbors spool directory.) A lot of USENET sites are real
shoestring operations on machines with very small disks.
All in all, I don't believe this will be a problem on the INTERNET.
bill
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