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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,misc.legal,misc.misc,misc.forsale
Subject: Re: Portal Lowers Rates for Telenet Access
Summary: More "commercials" from Portal
Message-ID: <2618@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 88 20:08:50 GMT
References: <7475@cup.portal.com>
Sender: nobody@cs.Buffalo.EDU
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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In article <7475@cup.portal.com>, CS@cup.portal.com writes:
> Portal Communications Company announced new lower rates for Telenet
> access to the Portal System(TM).
> ... [commercial drivel develted]
> Some of the services Portal provides include connections to many other
> networks including Usenet, an international conferencing network, and
> to UUCP, ARPA, BITNET and other mail networks. ...
           ^^^^
	Portal Communications is a private, ostensibly profit-making BBS
having obviously no affiliation with DARPA nor with any bonafide educational
institution, industrial or government organization that does have any
affiliation with DARPA.

	What right does Portal Communications have to permit, solicit and
charge for access to the ARPANET?  Does anyone from DARPA know that Portal
is engaging in this activity?

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