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From: Bob McNamara <bob@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: LEGAL-KERMIT: may an ISP put up KERMIT (free) for customer use?
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 23:19:28 -0700
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Inc./Netcom Transition Team
Message-ID: <Vpj5N=aZf+h=VR9KxeavS0dOKn=x@4ax.com>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
We continue to supply space for the NUGLOPS files. I'd imagine the
best place for this would be right in with those.
Bob
On 5 Oct 1999 02:32:31 GMT, dkcombs@netcom.com (David Combs) wrote:
:>Because the fellow who kept a recent and correctly-compiled
:>version of kermit has evidently abandoned using netcom,
:>there remains only a half-working version -- one that
:>downloads ok, but gets errors on uploading.
:>
:>Mindspring (bought netcom) is saying that one of us
:>USERS has to put up a kermit, it we want one.
:>
:>Well, they allow us only 5mb of disk; over that, they
:>CHARGE.
:>
:>One person from mindspring was saying that their hands
:>were tied because your free-use license disallowed
:>any "commercial" use -- including, they inferred, as an
:>ISP, for their customers.
:>
:>QUESTION: just what IS the situation?
:>
:>And, if there is a charge for "commercial" use (like by mindspring),
:>HOW MUCH of a charge is it?
:>
:>Thanks!
:>
:>David Combs
:>
:>PS: that KERMIT is a WONDERFUL package indeed!
:>
:>esp with all the error-catching it does, and the ability
:>to resume a download after a crashed session, and still
:>lose nothing.
Bob McNamara bob@mindspring.net
Customer Advocate/Netcom Transition Team
MindSpring Enterprises Inc.
1430 W. Peachtree Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 815 0770 x 22205
http://www.mindspring.com
"A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not why ships are built"