Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!agate!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 19:34:30 GMT References: <1991Mar29.151152.22304@ima.isc.com> <1991Apr3.181019.21621@eff.org> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 11 kadie@eff.org (Carl Kadie) writes: >The ANS is (according to the first note) "the recent IBM/Merit/MCI >conglomeration that runs the NSFnet backbone." It is thus an >agent of the U.S. Federal Government. See my other note. ANS operates the backbone. However, its business is not limited to MERIT. MERIT is one of its customers. ANS is no more nor less an agent of the government than the phone companies are. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]