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From: jlister@slhisc.uucp (John Lister)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: compuserve
Message-ID: <1991May28.142333.6777@slhisc.uucp>
Date: 28 May 91 14:23:33 GMT
References: <1991May15.143317.4297@oar.net> <1991May16.211344.16328@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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In article <1991May16.211344.16328@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> eckert@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert) writes:
>From article <1991May15.143317.4297@oar.net>, by karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu:
>> 
>> PS- No, emphatically, general IP (telnet) access into CompuServe is
>> _not_ part of the game plan.
>
>How did you guess people could be interested in this, and so why
>isn't compuserv interested in this - we do have a commercial internet
>by now too, don't we ?
>---

Let's ask the final question:  how about telnet/FTP *out* of Compuserve as
well?!  (Since we're looking at possible commercial uses of the Internet, I
would speculate that making access available *at a premium* to Compuserve users
outside of prime hours, could provide a significant amount of money.  Look how
much traffic went through the Internet/Compuserve mail gateway from Bitftp...)

John Lister.