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Re: Question about Internet access

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From: Ted Dunning
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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