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Article #2315Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email.
From: Alasdair Grant
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:53
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:53
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In article <lamp0rr@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes: >ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes: >>Perhaps you ought to learn something about >>international networking before you assume it's all run from the USA. > >First, of course, we'd have to care. Just as an experiment sometime, >print out the Brian Reed's postscript maps. Notice where about 99.9% of >all connections anchor one end or the other. Note the country involved. Then >crawl back out on your leaf and be quiet. Do Brian Reed's maps list the international X.400 networks? BITNET/EARN? Corporate SNA and DECnet networks? Corporate leased lines? National research networks using non-DARPA protocols? _That_ is my point. Just because someone's got an Internet address doesn't mean they're on the Internet - they might be using a gateway.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!ag129 From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.admin.misc Subject: Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email. Message-ID: <1992Oct12.105329.23365@infodev.cam.ac.uk> Date: 12 Oct 92 10:53:29 GMT References: <1b7utuINNr8k@uwm.edu> <1992Oct11.173756.14192@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <lamp0rr@dixie.com> Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news) Organization: U of Cambridge, England Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk