From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!dsd!cyrus Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Commercial uses of the network Article-I.D.: dsd.153 Posted: Mon Apr 18 20:17:03 1983 Received: Wed Apr 20 04:19:14 1983 References: ittvax.683 I strongly agree that the net should not become the backbone for commercial endeavors. The only way their system, as suggested, could function was with a direct link to each customer's site. Where reliability, accountability, and verification are paramount this act can only pave the way for more thoughtless net usage by these so-called 'vendors'. Personally, I think this ill-planned blunder is par for TWG. -Cyrus ("EUNICE, it's no UNIX!") Azar fortune!dsd!cyrus ucbvax!atd!dsd!cyrus