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Subject: Re: Commercial use of the Internet
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Date: 18 Feb 89 23:42:00 GMT
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John,

There are several efforts to make links available from
public email carriers into the Internet. DASNET based
in San Fracisco area (I think) has one such link. UUNET 
has UUCP to Internet facility. My company is working on a
link between Internet and MCI Mail. We hope to pursue
other such links or to encourage them, as appropriate.

This does NOT mean that the Internet should be used for
commercial purposes - I distinguish between links between
commercial organizations and the Internet for purposes of
research support, exchanges with the academic and research
community and commercial use (i.e. using the facilities
of the Internet to support a profit-making enterprise).
It should be legitimate for a commercial enterprise to
provide for-profit services linking their users to users
of the Internet, but the general purpose of such links
should be to further exchanges among the R&D community members.

A final statement of use and interconnect policy is still the
subject of consideration by the members of the FRICC.

Vint