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Started by Daniel Kohn
Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:56
Q: Commercial usage of Internet with mail-daemons
Author: Daniel Kohn
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:56
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:56
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I have been using Usenet and the Internet for about three years now, and have recently come up with an idea for a commercial service to be available to Internet users. In general terms, it would be a mail-daemon that would provide a service to users who would include their MasterCard or Visa number in the e-mail letter. I have several questions about access, costs, legality, and general netiquette which I hope you can help me answer. I would greatly appreciate your assistance. First of all, how big is the Internet? How do you know? In general terms, how many people use e-mail on the Internet and systems connected to it (e.g., Compuserve, Bitnet, AppleLink, etc.)? What is the procedure to establish a commercial node on the Internet? What firms would you recommend? What costs should I expect to pay? Are there different prices depending on throughput? Are there any restrictions on commercial users of the Internet (e.g., restricted access, no junk e-mail, etc.)? Are there other firms using e-mail for commercial activities (e.g., mail-order,technical support, etc.)? Lastly, how would you recommend that I advertise? Word of mouth will, of course, be a major factor. But can I purchase the Compuserve mailing list? Would it violate the law or general netiquette to post advertising on Usenet? If not, what group(s) would be appropriate. It is probably clear from the number of questions above that I do not yet have the expertise to start up a mail-daemon service. I am, in fact, planning on bringing in a couple UNIX hackers before I go much further, but this information will be very helpful to me in planning my strategy and costs. Thank you in advance for taking the time to reply. Cheers. Follow-up to: Please reply by e-mail and I will post a summary of the replies. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Daniel M. Kohn "studying" abroad at the International Students House Swarthmore College London School of Economics 10 York Terrace East, Rm. 71 kohn@cs.swarthmore.edu until March 19, 1993 London England NW1 4PT
Re: Q: Commercial usage of Internet with mail-daemons
Author: Bob Snyder
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:46
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:46
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Kohn <kohn@cs.swarthmore.edu> writes: Daniel> I have been using Usenet and the Internet for about Daniel> three years now, and have recently come up with an idea for a Daniel> commercial service to be available to Internet users. In Daniel> general terms, it would be a mail-daemon that would provide a Daniel> service to users who would include their MasterCard or Visa Daniel> number in the e-mail letter. I have several questions about This is a joke, right? Visa and Mastercard numbers in email? I like my credit rating too much to send it though this easily interceptable medium. Many sites use store and forward mail. UUCP does this. Sendmail does it (although it usually forwards quite quickly). Do you trust every machine that your mail passes through to resist the temptation of looking? Or people using Ethernet snoopers to listen in on traffic as it goes by.... Sendmail bounce messages generally send a copy of the message to Postmaster. If you mistype, do you want your credit card number to be in his/her hands? Bob
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