Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:881 misc.legal:5442 misc.misc:3273 misc.forsale:1837 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,misc.legal,misc.misc,misc.forsale Subject: Re: Portal Lowers Rates for Telenet Access Message-ID: <2323@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 22 Jul 88 17:49:16 GMT References: <32208@pyramid.pyramid.com> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 19 In article <2618@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: >> 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? Portal, like all of us who have registered our domains through the UUCP project, is registered with the Internet NIC (Network Information Center) at SRI, and has arranged for an official Internet forwarder (uunet.uu.net, to be precise). It's all very legal (they only provide "access to the ARPANET" in the sense of electronic mail). DARPA knows, since Portal is registered with them and the registration describes the purpose of the business. -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,pyramid,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck jbuck@epimass.epi.com Old Arpa mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net If you leave your fate in the hands of the gods, don't be surprised if they have a few grins at your expense. - Tom Robbins