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Article #294Re: Question about Internet access
From: Ted Dunning
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 18:01
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 18:01
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In article <1991May20.170041.12885@bellcore.bellcore.com>
jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin) mistakenly writes:
In article <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp>, joseph@panix.uucp (Joseph R. Skoler) writes:
|> I ... would like to know what benefit it would be to the company for it
|> to get Internet access.
Internet cannot be used for business purposes. It is mainly for
research and educational purposes. ...
You could use the internet for e-mail gateways, but I wouldn't
trust sensitive business items (or stuff that you can't afford to
lose during a transmission).
in fact, the Internet can be used for whatever you want. Certain
_parts_ of the internet such as the NSFnet are funded by the NSF on
the condition that they be used non-commercially, and certain other
parts are private (such as DEC's or HP's internal networks), but the
Internet is not a monolithic entity with a single consistent policy on
acceptable use. There are a number of commercial suppliers of
internet access who would be happy to provide Internet access to
virtually anyone.
--
if feeling bad is a justification for not living,
then living is a justification for feeling good.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!nmsu!opus!ted From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Question about Internet access Message-ID: <TED.91May20120130@kythera.nmsu.edu> Date: 20 May 91 18:01:30 GMT Article-I.D.: kythera.TED.91May20120130 References: <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp> <1991May20.170041.12885@bellcore.bellcore.com> Sender: news@NMSU.Edu Followup-To: comp.admin.policy Organization: Computing Research Lab Lines: 29 In-reply-to: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM's message of 20 May 91 17:00:41 GMT