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From: lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: compuserve
Message-ID: <1991May21.001611.4942@spectrum.CMC.COM>
Date: 21 May 91 00:16:11 GMT
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 - on the burning question: Why isn't Compu$erve on the Internet ?

In article <123603@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> sam@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Sam Neely) writes:
>At this point, you run into the NSFnet acceptable use policy which
>states "Thou shalt not use the NSFnet for commercial use."  CompuServe
>would have to block most sites.

If CompuServe were to hook up to a commercial IP network vendor, they
would have done THEIR part of the deal. Academic users would be presumed
to be using CIS fro academic purposes, and if their use was not academic,
they surely would not be doing it on NSFnet in the first place ?
-- 
/ Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer
  CMC Rockwell  lars@CMC.COM