Hot Line and e-mail

[baskett%forest at SGI.COM]

We have two basic kinds of network connections that carry e-mail.  One
is the government sponsored Internet and one is the individually
sponsored uucp net.  At the moment we are not sure how to restrict
people from using the Internet for a commercial purpose such as an
e-mail Hot Line.  So we don't have an e-mail Hot Line.  Our use of the
Internet is supposed to be for research and educational purposes.  It
is not hard to argue that info-iris falls in that usage category.  The
Hot Line, on the other hand, is a clear commercial offering from
Silicon Graphics.  One of these days, the networking issues will not be
so difficult, we all hope.

Forest Baskett
Silicon Graphics