Re: mail servers

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From: Edward Vielmetti
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 1990 04:09

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It appears from this discussion that an RFC on anonymous FTP,
mail-based archive servers, and other considerations that internet
archivists & researchers face would be in order.  That is just to say,
I'm taking notes & collecting names....

on a small tangent.  Bob Sutterfield asks:

   But is the FTP traffic then really for an authorized Internet user?
   If the transfer was automatically initiated on behalf of someone who's
   not connected, what is the legal status of the resultant traffic?  Who
   wants to ask?

RFC 1174 indicates that the simple binary "connected/not connected"
status has been recommended by the IAB to disappear, to be replaced by
a statement by each network regarding acceptable use and a policy on
transit traffic.  This is not new policy yet, but it's the right place
to look for guidance.  (Author is Vint Cerf.  You want to ask Vint,
be my guest...)

--Ed

Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu>
moderator, comp.archives

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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: mail servers
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