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Re: Internet rules (was: map question)

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 17:11
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In article <101839@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl
S. Gutekunst) writes:

| Back when NNTP was brand new (three, four years ago?), there was a lot of
| concern about this. It was generally accepted that some day, in the indefinite
| future, USENET would lose its privilege of running across the research Inter-
| nets, perhaps very soon. Not only hasn't that happened, but if anything USENET
| is more accepted now than then. There was a lot of concern that DARPA, CSNet,
| and other "officials" allowed USENET traffic simply because they didn't know
| what it was. When we were considering joining CSNet, I asked them about USENET
| traffic. They understood exactly what I meant, and had no objections at all.

Funny when Data General joined CSNet (via X.25 connections), we were
told quite firmly that we were not allowed to pass NNTP traffic through.
--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: Internet rules (was: map question)
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