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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 11:38:40 -0800
- From: dave@telco-nac.com (David Cornejo)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Internet *67 Service
- Message-ID: <telecom13.43.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Telco Systems NAC, Fremont, CA
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 43, Message 3 of 12
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- In article <telecom13.36.3@eecs.nwu.edu> Paul Robinson <tdarcos@access.
- digex.com> writes:
-
- > Note earlier in this message I said "the one that's left". There was
- > a service being run in Australia that did even more. First you used
- > the program PGP - a free RSA Public key generator - to create a public
- > and private key. You could then send the service your public key
- > first, then send messages which were UUENCODEd using the matching
- > private key, and told that system where to send the message. It would
- > use the previously supplied key to decrypt the message and then
- > forward it under the unique ID.
-
- > Unfortunately the backbone supplier for his area caught on to what he
- > was doing, and like most stuffy governmental authorities, takes a dim
- > view of people keeping their private matters private, informed him
- > that the activity he was doing was not a valid use of the network and
- > ordered the service discontinued. Boo.
-
- In a note that I saw posted somewhere, the operator of this service
- said that the other reason given by the backbone supplier was that the
- links to Australia were overburdened even without this added traffic.
- This was the primary reason why he chose not to protest too strongly.
-
- My own feeling is that these services are innappropriate for use on
- the Internet. I feel that since some other entity pays to transport my
- traffic on its network that I owe them some accountability. (I know
- that we usually pay for the connection to the Internet, but in general
- the transport is at the expense of someone else) If the Australian
- network (which I believe has educational/government funding) feels
- that someones late night mumblings to alt.sex.* is inappropriate given
- their charter who are we to complain? It is after all their dime.
-
-
- Dave Cornejo, Telco Systems NAC voice 510.490.3111
- 4305 Cushing Parkway ext 5158
- Fremont, CA 94538 FAX 510.490.9396
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