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From: tim@ISM780B.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 386 Family Products
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Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 13:05:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 13:05:00 1985
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> The followup (non)descriptive posting was however questionable, and the
> solicitation for information requests *by e-mail over the net* should
> definitely not have appeared.  There are *competitors* of Intel on the net,
> why should they be bearing the cost of supplier-customer communications?

There are two ways to handle forwarding of mail.  The restrictive way would
be for each site to only forward mail that relates to the work at that site.
The other way is for everybody to forward, even if the items being forwarded
are to/from the competition.  The second is what is commonly done.  The
price you pay for handling other peoples random traffic is that they
handle yours.

If Intel forwards mail to their neighbors without restriction ( I don't
know if they do or not ), then their is nothing wrong with what they did.

Yes, it would be tacky for someone to route a 386 info request through
Motorola, for example, but presumably a person looking for 68020 info
could route his request through Intel.