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From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: compuserve
Message-ID: <1991May21.212856.3907@wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 21 May 91 21:28:56 GMT
References: <9105211159.AA23740@tuatara.uofs.edu>
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <9105211159.AA23740@tuatara.uofs.edu> bill@TUATARA.UOFS.EDU (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>
>1.  There are commercial INTERNET providers that Compuserve could hook up to.
>2.  It is not Compuserve's responsibility to police the NSFnet.  It is up to
>    the users to ensure that their traffic meets Acceptable Use Policy.
>
>It might even make the commercial INTERNET providers look more attractive if 
>one of them could lure Compuserve into the fold.  But, I stand by what I said
>above,  it isn't a technical problem.

It's far more likely that the current commercial provider's are not too terribly
happy about Compuserve getting interested in IP connectivity. It would be kind of 
interesting if Compuserve was able to provide dialup PPP or SLIP from all of their 
access points..... 

Locally the University of BC's dialup ports for UBCNet offer X.28/X.29 access to 
X.25 hosts, Telnet to internet hosts, or SLIP (either by using %slip or just sending 
a slip packet in command mode). 

If Compuserve was to introduce a service like that with some services behind it like
say POP3, FTP, and Telnet things could get quite interesting :-) Of course we hope
that they would join CIX and have an NFSNet interconnect as well. 

-- 
Stuart Lynne	Computer Signal Corporation, Canada
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