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- From: frank@halcyon.com (Frank Higgins)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: Re: The "commercial use of net" problem -- irrelevant?
- Keywords: Internet, commercial usage
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.080349.15872@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 08:03:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: nwnexus.1992Nov13.080349.15872
- References: <1dsr2aINNono@almaak.usc.edu>
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- In article <1dsr2aINNono@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
- >
- >My claim is that the Internet is already quite commercialised, and
- >that it's not bleeding as a consequence.
- >I think it's hence time for us to stop worrying about commercial use,
- >and plan for a next decade of the net where commercial use is the
- >norm, not the exception.
- >
- >What do you think?
- >
- > -ans.
- >--
- >Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
-
- And a local electronics firm of national renown won't let me
- connect through them to usenet UNLESS I PROVE TO THEM THAT I AM IN
- BUSINESS AND CONDUCTING BUSINESS ON THE NET. And they won't let
- their employees have access to the net for personal use.
-
- Ajay is right.
-
- Frank
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