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From: elwell@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (Clayton M. Elwell)
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Date: Tue, 26-May-87 14:39:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 14:39:57 1987
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Sigh.  It seems a little clarification is in order here.

	Although I appreciate your enthusiasm in developing a item that may
	be of interest to the research community, I must point out to you that
	this particular activity, even though not for profit, is somewhat out
	of line with Arpanet policy.  May I please point all of you out their
	to the DDN publication NIC 50003, "Arpanet Information Brochure" and the
	statement on page seven (7):
	
	Users of Arpanet may only use the network to conduct the offical business
	for which their access was authorized.  They may not violate privacy or
	any other applicable laws, and must not use the network for private gain
	or for commercial purposes, such as advertising or recruiting.

My message was posted to the Usenet newsgroup "comp.protocols.tcp-ip."
At the time I was not aware that it was automatically gatewayed to the
Arpanet.  If this violated any DDN policy, in letter or in spirit, it
was certainly unintentional. 

Even on Usenet, advertising is frowned upon.  This message was not an
offer to produce or sell any item, merely an attempt to see if anyone
else might be interested.  Keeping a sense of humor alive about your
work is certainly part of the Arpanet tradition (cf. the Hacker's
Dictionary and other such materials available via anonymous FTP all
over the internet...).  I do not see how the paragraph I posted could
have been construed as trying to "bend the rules," especially when
compared with the many commercially oriented ARPA mailing lists.
	
	Please don't push me on the interpretation of this mild rule, the 
	coefficient of elasticity is high, but the energy put into the push
	may find a way of returning to its source.

I'm not in the T-shirt business :-).  I'm a systems programmer for a
major university currently in the throes of some knotty networking
problems regarding the Arpanet and TCP/IP in general.  Sometimes you
have to laugh about it.  The TCP/IP newsgroup on Usenet seemed to be
the most likely place to find some people that would get the joke.

	Dennis G. Perry
	Program Manager of the Arpanet
	Information Science and Technology Office
	DARPA
	-------

I apologize for any inconvenience or perceived violation.  This is always
a risk, though, especially when a private system is connected to a
(relatively) public one.  Perhaps the Usenet gateway should be moderated.


--Clayton Elwell
  The Ohio State University
  Department of Computer and Information Science
  Research Computing Facility