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From: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: compuserve gateway ??
Message-ID: <23065@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 19:44:17 GMT
References: <1231@prles2.prl.philips.nl>
Reply-To: jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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In article <1231@prles2.prl.philips.nl> meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl () writes:
>I'm receiving messages from compuserve.com!postmaster that my message
>could not be delivered (mail delivery failure, no room in mailbox)
>I've posted these messages on UseNet, so I was highly surprised to get
>this response.
>
>Does this mean that there is some kind of gateway between comp.os.minix
>and compuserve??

Well, Compuserve does have a mail gateway to the Internet.  Looks like
someone on Compuserve has subscribed to info-minix.

Compuserve is not on Usenet in the sense of Usenet newsgroups appearing as
Compuserve groups.

>A gateway also drags in some legal problems:
>For instance my ST 1.1 to ST 1.5.0 upgrade contains the following notice:
>"This upgrade kit carries a compilation copyright as far as the various
> source files concerns. This document is copyrighted by F. Meulenbroeks,
> 1989. Everyone is granted permission to redistribute both the upgrade
> kit and this document freely. However, it is explicitly forbidden to
> make money from this in any way. "
>A gateway to a commercial system would surely violate this notice.

C'mon.  What exactly do you mean by this notice?  Uunet charges people for
news connections, and there are many "public access" sites connected to
Usenet that charge people for connect time.  In this sense many people are
"making money" from your postings.  I don't see how Compuserve (and The
Source, and Bix) are any different.  These places provide hardware and
connectivity for people who aren't lucky enough to work for a large company
or university that pays the $$$ for them.

Let's not discriminate against The Poorly Connected People.

Jaime
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