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- From: schan@birch.srg.af.mil (Stephen Chan x4485)
- Subject: Re: Informal Usage Survey
- Organization: SRG, Arinc Research Corp., Annapolis, MD
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 14:22:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.142202.19333@srg.srg.af.mil>
- References: <Af2PIYu00VouET=n5X@andrew.cmu.edu> <POPOVICH.92Nov18164317@morningside.cs.columbia.edu>
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- In article <POPOVICH.92Nov18164317@morningside.cs.columbia.edu> popovich@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Popovich) writes:
- >This is getting dangerously close to, if it is not already, prohibited
- >commercial use of the Internet. While some particular subnets of the
- >Internet permit commercial use, many of the important "backbone"
- >subnets, such as NSFnet, prohibit commercial traffic.
-
- [ahem]
- As a former mail/news administrator for the andrew.cmu.edu domain...
- [ "oooohhhhhhh ahhhhhhh", trumpets play]
-
- I'll point out that commercial use is against the Acceptable Use Policy
- of PrepNET (the regional net for W. PA) as of 1990-1991. That may have changed
- by now, since many regional nets are trying to justify their continued
- existence by allowing commercial traffic.
-
- > IMHO, such a
- >service as you propose could not be lawfully provided at the current
- >time. I would not advise setting up such a service, since it might
- >subject you to litigation if one of those subnets I mentioned earlier
- >decided to go after you.
-
- The best way to find out would be to contact the PrepNet NIC, send mail
- to prepnet+@andrew.cmu.edu, or call x7870 - they could probably give you the
- low down.
-
- --
- Stephen Chan
- uunet!srg!schan or uunet!srg!schan@uunet.uu.net
-