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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Remote database services ???
Summary: Use the right tool for the job
Message-ID: <575@wet.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 11:42:45 GMT
References: <8079@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: eps@CS.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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Public data networks (Telenet, Tymnet, etc.) are ideally
suited for these services, "expand with demand," and tend to be
pretty much universally accessible.

What you are proposing is not only parasitic, but insulting to
those of us who crafted this unique resource.  There are
some things that can only be done on the Internet.  You don't
need Internet's capabilities.  You're looking for a common
carrier.  We need what little bandwidth we have.  Internet can't
be all things to all people.

					-=EPS=-

(No vested interest in any PDN or commercial database service)