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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.misc
Subject: Re: Telebit Modems
Message-ID: <3101@phri.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 16:50:23 GMT
References: <110@telebit.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Keywords: TrailBlazer highspeed-dialup

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