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Subject: Re: Software Development System Product Announcement
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Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 10:15:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  6 10:15:49 1984
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From:  Ken Cowan ZKO2-3/L13 381-2198 


	This 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
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