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- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 08:55:01 EST
- Reply-To: "D. Glen McPherson" <mcphers@HILBERT.MATHS.UTAS.EDU.AU>
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- From: "D. Glen McPherson" <mcphers@HILBERT.MATHS.UTAS.EDU.AU>
- Subject: commercial use of education networks
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- The use of educationally based electronic mail links for advertising purposes
- is more than a matter of inconvenience to subscribers. So far as I am aware,
- the Australian government pays the cost of providing the overseas electronic
- mail link for Australian universities under the strict condition that the
- link not be used for commercial purposes. Those subscribers who are using
- the global networks for free advertising are jepordising this situation.
- So far as can recall, it has only been US subscribers who have advertised.
- Perhaps there is an arrogance in the US that it would not matter much if the
- rest of the world was not heard or spoken to, but I, for one, feel that these
- links we have now established have enriched the areas in which I work.
- I have great sympathy for those who are in need of employment, in need of
- people with special skills, or university departments who have equipment to
- sell to provide them with much needed income. However, are there not other
- avenues you could use?
-
- Glen McPherson
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