Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!cowan%hare.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA From: cowan%hare.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Software Development System Product Announcement Message-ID: <796@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 10:15:49 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.796 Posted: Mon Aug 6 10:15:49 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 01:13:02 EDT Lines: 25 From: Ken Cowan ZKO2-3/L13 381-2198This announcement brings up an interesting point. The rules of the USENET say that announcements such as this are a valid use of the net, whereas DoD says that commercialism is not a valid use of the ARPANET. Aside from the fact that DoD has almost as many lawyers as AT&T (just kidding), which rules does someone follow? It is probably easy enough to strike a compromise between these two nets and everybody (or most everybody) realizes that this news group travels between the two nets. What do we do about other nets. Since I am at DEC, I realize that this news travels the DEC Easynet, but I never think about what other nets might receive this. For instance, I saw some net addresses that implied XEROX has a seperate net with a gateway to the ARPANET. I also imagine this message travels the BITNET and CSNET, and I don't have any idea what constitutes valid use of those networks. The question is: How do you determine what is a valid use of a given news group? KC UUCP: decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-hare!cowan ARPA: cowan%hare.DEC@decwrl.arpa