At 09:50 AM 4/28/99 -0700, Greg Skinner wrote:
> > the Acceptible Use Policy, i.e. which forbid any form of commercial
> > entity to use the NSF backbone
>
>Gordon Cook or someone else may know the exact answer, but I believe
>that the agreement specified that no commercial traffic should be
>allowed to *transit* the NSFnet backbone, but they could communicate
>with commercial providers, etc. as they wished.
The Arpanet and Internet have always had 'commercial entities' attached,
sending traffic, and generally participating in the net.
Restrictions have pertained to types/style of use, not financial bais of
the users.
d/
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