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From: reggie@dinsdale.paradyne.com (George W. Leach)
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Subject: Re: Communications Nets
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Date: 6 Jul 90 22:45:09 GMT
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Adding to what William P. Gardner recently wrote on histories of 
communications networks:

    Have you read:

        Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff,
	The Network Nation,
	Addison-Wesley, 1978.

William also asked:

> Now -- another question.  To my knowledge, none of the academic nets
> allow commerce in documents (or anything else).  Does anyone know of an
> official statement of policy from the BITNET people or from USENET (who
> runs USENET, anyway?) that states and justifies this policy?

Got me, but if you are interested in the potentials of commercial
endeavors and communications, you might want to try and track down 
the following:

	Murray Turoff,
	Information, Value and the Internal Marketplace,
	Technological Forecasting and Social Change, (27), 1985, pp. 357-373.
	
	Murray Turoff and Sanjit Chinai,
	An Electronic Information Marketplace,
	Computer Networks and ISDN Systems,
	(9), 1985, pp. 79-90.
	
George W. Leach