Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!woods
From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Internet Mail Policy
Keywords: inet, mail, rules, uucp, domains
Message-ID: <1574@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 89 20:41:11 GMT
References: <1859@edison.GE.COM>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
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In article <1859@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM writes:
>In the past the Internet had a policy that traffic not originating
>or terminating at an Internet site wasn't to be transported over
>the Internet as an intermediate transport mechanism.

   That may have been an ARPAnet policy, but seeing as how the Internet is 
now made up of networks connected together that are themselves separate 
administrative entities, I don't think one can speak of an "Internet"
policy on this kind of thing. I know that the NSFnet policy has no prohibition
against this kind of traffic unless it is commercial in nature (at least,
that's what I've been told).

--Greg