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From: tankus@hsi.UUCP (Ed Tankus)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.misc
Subject: Re: Telebit Modems
Keywords: TrailBlazer highspeed-dialup
Message-ID: <810@hsi.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 13:57:50 GMT
References: <110@telebit.UUCP> <3101@phri.UUCP>
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In article <3101@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> In article <110@telebit.UUCP> root@telebit.UUCP (Mike Ballard) says that
> Telebit would like to use the net to provide product support, but doesn't want
> to step on the net's non-commercial-use rules, and is looking for an
> acceptable way out of the problem.
> 
> 	Well, as Mark Horton so elegantly stated some time ago, news is not so
> much a network, as a technology.  Perhaps the thing to do would be to start up
> a new top-level name called prod-support (or whatever).  Each vendor which had
> a commercial product he wished to support via news would start up his own
> group (prod-support.telebit, etc) and take responsibility for administering
> the topology of that particular group; finding new customers feeds, or
> providing feeds themselves as they prefer.  Since only those sites that were
> interested in getting those groups would get them, the normal rules about not
> using the net for commercial purposes wouldn't apply.
> -- 
> Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
> 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016




I think Roy's idea shows great thought and has considerable merit.  Maybe as
a first step, the folks at Telebit would like to take a count of those 
interested in such a group.  Here's mine: YES!




Cheers!

-- Ed.
    
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