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Article #474Re: National Science Foundation Announces InterNIC Services
From: Michael C. Berch
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1993 19:26
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1993 19:26
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In the referenced article, tli@cisco.com (Tony Li) writes: > <tweekC4u3or.EB7@netcom.com> tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield) writes: > > So, Is this real? or is it April first? > If it is real, they picked an odd day to announce it... > If it's an April Fools joke, the posting date is April 2 GMT. > Of course, the posters name...Push Pen Dramahta.... > > Yes it's real. The sad part is that the Internic is financially related to > the person posting. As such, it looks like advertising to me..... Not commercial advertising, since the InterNIC does not sell a product or service to the network community. It was a press release. When a firm receives a government contract award, or their technology is selected as part of a large project, it is customary to make an announcement to this effect. Cisco has certainly done this. There is nothing improper about it, nor is there anything "sad" about the fact that there is a relationship between whomever posted the announcement and the contracted-for service. -- Michael C. Berch mcb@presto.ig.com / mcb@net.bio.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ff4aa,b07becdbc957bd8f X-Google-Attributes: gidff4aa,public X-Google-Thread: fa874,b07becdbc957bd8f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public X-Google-Thread: f4f5d,b07becdbc957bd8f X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f5d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-04-02 11:32:52 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!biosci!mcb From: mcb@net.bio.net (Michael C. Berch) Newsgroups: alt.bbs.lists,ba.internet,alt.internet.access.wanted Subject: Re: National Science Foundation Announces InterNIC Services Message-ID: <Apr.2.11.26.43.1993.10086@net.bio.net> Date: 2 Apr 93 19:26:43 GMT References: <1pg0b8$7g1@news.cerf.net> <tweekC4u3or.EB7@netcom.com> <1pgka3INN7fg@cronkite.cisco.com> Organization: IntelliGenetics, Inc., Mountain View, California, USA Lines: 23