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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.170659.15233@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 17:06:59 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.181019.21621@eff.org> <6388@awdprime.UUCP> <6399@awdprime.UUCP>
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In article <6399@awdprime.UUCP> mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown) writes:
>cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:
>> "Whose paying for all this [MERIT, ANS, etc.]" is you, bud.  It's taxpayer
>> money that keeps the INTERNET going.
>
>Thank you, thank you.
>
>I now ask...why blame ANS (and the companies hired to run the net) for policies
>they were in all probability *TOLD* to implement?
>
>There's an agency of Government behind all this...hmmm...wonder what would
>happen if *they* were pressured to do the right thing, given they hold
>the purse-strings?
>
>Hmmm.
>
>
>Mark Brown    IBM PSP Austin, TX.     (512) 823-3741   VNET: MBROWN@AUSVMQ
>MAIL: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com OR uunet!testsys.austin.ibm.com!mbrown
>		Which came first: The Chicken or the Legba?
>      DISCLAIMER: Any personal opinions stated here are just that.


Talk to the NSF, National Science Foundation.  It's the lead agency in
networking nonmilitary installations and will continue to be so if the
Gore NREN bill is passed.

Bob Jacobson
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