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From: eduardo@m2xenix.psg.com (Eduardo Salom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Netpower: encourage HP to improve customer services
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.201130.25483@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: 22 Jul 90 20:11:30 GMT
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
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>from: eduardo@m2xenix.psg.com (Eduardo Salom)

You are confusing InterNet and Usenet.  These are two separate entities.
UseNet is this anarchic net composed mostly by *nix machines using the UUCP
program to communicate between them.  There are other nets like BitNet, Earn,
FidoNet, etc.  InterNet is a net of nets allowing the passage of messages from
one net to another.  There are _some_ UseNet, BitNet, etc.  nodes also
registered at InterNet.  To register at InterNet a system _must_ be in another
net.  You can link to or unlink from UseNet without any restriction, the
InterNet have more rules.  There are commercial services registered at Internet
like CompuServe and DasNet but nobody could think that those companies aren't
making a profit from the e-mail.  BIX is linked to DasNet, so I can send
messages from BIX to any user of any net o system connected to InterNet but
CompuServe.  In fact the messages pass thru but it's forbidden by InterNet
because _both_ CIS and BIX are commercial and/or BIX users pay DasNet for such
service.  I could suscribe and receive a BitNet list from UseNet, CIS or BIX
but in the last two cases I will pay for it in some way.  BTW the BitNet lists
are like the UseNet newsgroups, the difference is that the messages go to your
mailbox.

In brief:  The non-commercial restriction applies _only_ to the InterNet
traffic but not to UseNet.

No *nix users:  I guess that I'm the only one around.  I own a HP3000 and a PC
using the last one for datacomm but I read this newsgroup because we also do
systems programming for *nix (aside HP1000 and MS-DOS).

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