Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:5193 comp.misc:12079 news.newusers.questions:4725 Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.misc,news.newusers.questions Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Subject: Commercial Internet (was Re: Email to BIX??) In-Reply-To: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 11 Apr 91 21:05:43 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. References: <1991Apr11.154134.272@otago.ac.nz> <568@racerx.UUCP> <1991Apr11.210543.1374@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 23:05:59 GMT In article <1991Apr11.210543.1374@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: are not normally given out. BIX does not have an Internet linkup so that general users can get out to the Internet. I think the reason is that it's hard for commercial (for profit) services like BIX to get Internet connections, since it's all such a non-profit sort of thing. They could connect to the internet through one of the commercial internet providers, including Alternet, PSI, Cerfnet, or any of the other organizations which are in the process of selling to this market. (Not to mention any names.) Rates vary according to the location of your site relative to the network service provider's local point of presence (POP), the speed of the line, and local market conditions; you can do *anything you want* with these connections, so long as it's legal and so long as you don't violate the conditions of use of other more restricted nets. It is OK to be a for-profit site on the Internet, as long as you play by all of the rules and as long as you pay for the services you're getting. -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives (a service of MSEN, Inc.) emv@msen.com "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216