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- Newsgroups: ch.network
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!chsun!bernina!feigin
- From: feigin@iis.ethz.ch (Adam W. Feigin)
- Subject: Re: FAQ: connecting to Internet?
- Message-ID: <feigin.712566234@err>
- Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <feigin.712502633@err> <1992Jul30.145837.25452@chsun.chuug.ch>
- Distribution: ch.network, ch.chuug
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:03:54 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- poole@chsun.chuug.ch (Simon Poole) writes:
-
- >As I pointed out earlier to Alain, you should be careful with these arguments:
- >since I was -there- at the time, I know that the initial US IP connectivity
- >was -very- clearly limited to NSFnet access. European IP connectivity
- >for the universities was "by accident" (this was available due to the
- >association of your service provider with EUnet) and if I remember correctly
- >was never officially announced as available.
-
- Thats all well and good. However, when you have only a single 'service
- provider', and they are making the decisions for you.....
-
- >I've got know idea if the official policies have changed at all, but I would
- >be careful with assumptions on what you are being sold.
-
- Well, do you know if every subscriber to our 'service provider' (mine,
- not yours) receives a copy of a 'acceptable use policy' ? I should
- think that if they are making decisions for their clients, the clients
- should be aware of what acceptable use is (Not every person, but at
- least the networking folk in the clients organization). Or, are they
- free to make decisions FOR US, without CONSULTING us, to see whether
- their decision(s) makes our work more difficult ?
-
- /AWF
-