[9307] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

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Re: The annointed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Tue Dec 28 17:56:54 1993

From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
To: marc@MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1993 17:56:48 -0500 (EST)
Cc: steve@mon.cise.nsf.gov, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312282246.AA20190@oliver.MIT.EDU> from "Marc Horowitz" at Dec 28, 93 05:46:45 pm

> 
> >> > Finally, any step that gets more people to understand the value of two-way
> >> > electrionic communications as opposed to the one-way model of broadcast TV
> >> > and cable, is useful.  So what if nbc.com is only e-mail,  it is better
> >> > than nothing.
> >> 
> >> Exactly.  Bravo.  -s
> 
> Is it legitimate for me to use the backbone to send nbc.com mail from
> my very commercial work account?
> 
> If not, then nbc's email link isn't better than nothing for the
> majority of net users.
> 
> 		Marc

Yoohoo.... I'm getting sick of this...

If you have a commercial account and they have a commercial account, then
it's almost gaurunteed that you do not pass over an AUP network
backbone that you aren't supposed to.  If you do it's your network
providers problem, not yours.

Everyone with a .com domain SHOULD be a commercial customer.

sdw
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