Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Internet rules (was: map question) Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 90 17:11:32 GMT References: <267@hplabs.HPL.HP.COM> <101264@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1990Feb8.012051.7798@vicom.com> <4440@fernwood.MPK.CA.US> <1990Feb11.225848.23276@vicom.com> <10810@saturn.ADS.COM> <101839@pyramid.pyramid.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 19 In-reply-to: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com's message of 13 Feb 90 04:50:35 GMT In article <101839@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes: | Back when NNTP was brand new (three, four years ago?), there was a lot of | concern about this. It was generally accepted that some day, in the indefinite | future, USENET would lose its privilege of running across the research Inter- | nets, perhaps very soon. Not only hasn't that happened, but if anything USENET | is more accepted now than then. There was a lot of concern that DARPA, CSNet, | and other "officials" allowed USENET traffic simply because they didn't know | what it was. When we were considering joining CSNet, I asked them about USENET | traffic. They understood exactly what I meant, and had no objections at all. Funny when Data General joined CSNet (via X.25 connections), we were told quite firmly that we were not allowed to pass NNTP traffic through. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so