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From: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Question about Internet access
Message-ID: <1991May20.170041.12885@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 20 May 91 17:00:41 GMT
References: <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp>
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In article <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp>, joseph@panix.uucp (Joseph R. Skoler) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> This question might have been answered before.  If so, I apologize.
|> 
|> 
|> I'm associated with a large (nationwide) tractor-trailer distributor,
|> and would like to know what benefit it would be to the company for it
|> to get Internet access.

	Internet cannot be used for business purposes. It is mainly for research and educational purposes. It is also heavily used by system administrators all over the world, as well as developers of software, to exchange ideas and post problems which they cannot solve (and yes,...there is a lot of personal
stuff that flows back and forth). 

    You could use the internet for e-mail gateways, but I wouldn't trust
sensitive business items (or stuff that you can't afford to lose during a transmission).

|> 
|> Joseph R. Skoler
|> 
|> UUCP:      cmcl2!panix!kc2yu!joseph
|> UUCP:      panix!joseph
|> BITNET:    skohc@cunyvm.bitnet
|> INTERNET:  ak526@cleveland.freenet.edu
|> AMPR NET:  kc2yu@kc2yu.ampr.org  [44.68.32.56]
|> PBBS:      kc2yu@nn2z.nj.usa.na

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