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From: baskett%forest@SGI.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Hot Line and e-mail
Message-ID: <9003142310.AA13043@forest.sgi.com>
Date: 14 Mar 90 23:10:05 GMT
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We have two basic kinds of network connections that carry e-mail.  One
is the government sponsored Internet and one is the individually
sponsored uucp net.  At the moment we are not sure how to restrict
people from using the Internet for a commercial purpose such as an
e-mail Hot Line.  So we don't have an e-mail Hot Line.  Our use of the
Internet is supposed to be for research and educational purposes.  It
is not hard to argue that info-iris falls in that usage category.  The
Hot Line, on the other hand, is a clear commercial offering from
Silicon Graphics.  One of these days, the networking issues will not be
so difficult, we all hope.

Forest Baskett
Silicon Graphics