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- From: bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu (Bill Goffe)
- Subject: Database on Commercial Info Services Being Built
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.181917.15784@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Sender: bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu (Bill Goffe)
- Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:19:17 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- I came across the following article in _The Chronicle of Higher
- Education_, Nov. 18, 1992, p. A17 in the _On Line_ section.
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- A company interested in expanding the commercial use of the Internet
- wants to hear the opinions and gripes of people who use the network.
- Robert Raisch, president of Internet.COM, says his company would
- like to assemble a publically available data base of information
- services that can be obtained on the Internet. Comments from users
- would be used to rate the services.
- The decentralized nature of the Internet has meant that there is
- no central administrator who has a directory of available services,
- Mr. Raisch says. "There is nowhere you, as a consumer, can go to
- complain or simply to learn if other like yourself are pleased with
- a particular service provider," he says.
- Mr. Raisch says he hopes the data base can be available on the
- Internet in January.
- Users who want to contribute to the survey can send comments to
- NET-SERVICES@CONTROL.COM.
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-
- I'd think this could be useful to this group for two reasons:
- (i) to send the requested information to them, and (ii) to ask
- them to post their data base here (or info on how to get it). To
- accomplish this later goal, why not mention this idea if you
- send them any information.
-
- If nothing else, it would be nice just to see a *list* of the
- commercial service providers.
-
- Bill Goffe
- bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu
-