Software Development System Product Announcement
cowan%hare.DEC at DECWRL.ARPA
cowan%hare.DEC at DECWRL.ARPA
Tue Aug 7 00:15:49 AEST 1984
From: Ken Cowan ZKO2-3/L13 381-2198 <cowan%hare.DEC at DECWRL.ARPA>
This announcement brings up an interesting point. The rules
of the USENET say that announcements such as this are a valid use of
the net, whereas DoD says that commercialism is not a valid use of the
ARPANET. Aside from the fact that DoD has almost as many lawyers as
AT&T (just kidding), which rules does someone follow?
It is probably easy enough to strike a compromise between these
two nets and everybody (or most everybody) realizes that this
news group travels between the two nets. What do we do about other
nets. Since I am at DEC, I realize that this news travels the DEC Easynet,
but I never think about what other nets might receive this. For instance,
I saw some net addresses that implied XEROX has a seperate net with a
gateway to the ARPANET. I also imagine this message travels the BITNET and
CSNET, and I don't have any idea what constitutes valid use of those
networks.
The question is: How do you determine what is a valid use of
a given news group?
KC
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