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- From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
- Subject: Re: The bogus Nixpub Posting
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.074247.26277@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <b0=n+#-@dixie.com> <1992Aug25.060121.10853@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> <p0an8#h@dixie.com> <34429@hoptoad.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:42:47 GMT
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- What constitutes a public access site? halcyon is an Internet site
- that charges for shell access. It also maintains a bbs (Waffle)
- that folks can use as they wish for 30 days (or until I remember
- to cancel their account). Does public access necessarily mean
- unlimited access? Definitions are often created to fill an
- immediate need, and as long as there's no cookbook for any of,
- my interpretation would be that a site that allows the general
- public to have access (commercial or not) is a public access site.
-
- However, such a site should (again, my feeling), if it wishes
- to be known as public access, make some sort of access public,
- rather than locking the door. If I were to seal up halcyon,
- I'd at least provide one phone line (not on the rotary) that
- could access a public, limited account, if for nothing more
- than to offer informational bulletins. But admins are quite
- the territorial creature, and do as they wish. That is what
- makes this whole 'network' so diverse.
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