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genillou@litsun20.epfl.ch (Guy Genilloud) writes:
: In article <1992Jul28.220927.4845@chsun.chuug.ch>, poole@chsun.chuug.ch (Simon Poole) writes:
: |> dantonio@iiic.ethz.ch (Denis Nicolas Antonioli) writes:
: 
: |> ...subscriber would imagine and that there are a lot of different 
: |> views on what the "Internet" really is.
: |> 
: |> Just an example: from here I can telnet and ftp to world.std.com,
: |> try that from the ETH.
: |> 
: 
: In fact, we can reach world.std.co from ETH...L (EPFL).
: 
: It is defintely very nice to be able to do things like that. Why is that not
: possible from every university/ETH in Switzerland?

I think our dear friends went in to panic mode yesterday and changed the 
the routing for world.std.com to go over their backup route to the states
(which no longer ends directly on NSFnet). I'll just have to use a couple 
of less simple examples) :-).

In any case, considering the nature of business of world.std.com, this
is very interesting with respect to your service providers acceptable
use policy.

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