Xref: utzoo comp.admin.policy:3 comp.protocols.nfs:2338 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!nmsu!opus!ted From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Question about Internet access Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 18:01:30 GMT Article-I.D.: kythera.TED.91May20120130 References: <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp> <1991May20.170041.12885@bellcore.bellcore.com> Sender: news@NMSU.Edu Followup-To: comp.admin.policy Organization: Computing Research Lab Lines: 29 In-reply-to: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM's message of 20 May 91 17:00:41 GMT In article <1991May20.170041.12885@bellcore.bellcore.com> jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin) mistakenly writes: In article <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp>, joseph@panix.uucp (Joseph R. Skoler) writes: |> I ... 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. ... 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). in fact, the Internet can be used for whatever you want. Certain _parts_ of the internet such as the NSFnet are funded by the NSF on the condition that they be used non-commercially, and certain other parts are private (such as DEC's or HP's internal networks), but the Internet is not a monolithic entity with a single consistent policy on acceptable use. There are a number of commercial suppliers of internet access who would be happy to provide Internet access to virtually anyone. -- if feeling bad is a justification for not living, then living is a justification for feeling good.