Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email.

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From: Alasdair Grant
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 17:37

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In article <1b7utuINNr8k@uwm.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>As for these messages appearing on "foreign" (relative to the USA)
>networks, well...  *you* folks voluntarily connected to our
>network(s).  That places _some_ responsibility for appropriateness 
>of traffic on you.

Huh? Who is 'our' in this context? The Internet Activities Board?
DARPA? The US Government? Are you speaking on their behalf?

The international e-mail internet is a common resource, using many 
different protocols (the message _I_ got from Abacus arrived via
Coloured Book protocols). Perhaps you ought to learn something about
international networking before you assume it's all run from the USA.

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!ag129

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Subject: Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email.
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