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Article #5224Re: Internet Mail Policy
From: Greg Woods
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1989 20:41
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1989 20:41
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In article <1859@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM writes: >In the past the Internet had a policy that traffic not originating >or terminating at an Internet site wasn't to be transported over >the Internet as an intermediate transport mechanism. That may have been an ARPAnet policy, but seeing as how the Internet is now made up of networks connected together that are themselves separate administrative entities, I don't think one can speak of an "Internet" policy on this kind of thing. I know that the NSFnet policy has no prohibition against this kind of traffic unless it is commercial in nature (at least, that's what I've been told). --Greg
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!woods From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Internet Mail Policy Keywords: inet, mail, rules, uucp, domains Message-ID: <1574@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 13 Mar 89 20:41:11 GMT References: <1859@edison.GE.COM> Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) Distribution: na Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 13