Re: Use of net by pbm companies [was: Cheap commercial games]

From: matt@severian.chi.il.us (Matt Crawford)

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 01:40:55 +0000

> >: He can get away with this because he has low overhead: email
> >: turn input instead of paying typists
> >
> > Will this be accepted by the Internet community: using the Internet
> > for a commercial service?
>
> Not by current standards, but who's to say that Internet will
> remain a not-for-profit network forever?

In the USA there are many commercial networks which can be used for
pretty much any otherwise-legal purpose *except* the sending of
traffic to the non-commercial side which violates the latter's AUPs.
(Acceptable use policies.)

Commercial traffic of certain sorts is allowed on the AUP-controlled
parts of the net.  A university, for instance, can communicate with a
purely for-profit vendor so long as the traffic is in the furtherance
of the university's educational or research goals.  Unsolicited
advertisements from the vendor, or freelance business operations by
university personnel, do not meet AUPs.

It makes many old-time internauts a little nostalgic for the pure old
days, but there's a considerable upside.  Now that people are making
money off the internet, nobody can make it disappear.
__________________________________________________________
Matt Crawford       matt@severian.chi.il.us       Java Man

References

Re: Use of net by pbm companies [was: Cheap commercial games]
ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu (Yeon Choi)
Mon, 11 Apr 1994 06:12:50 +0000
Re: Cheap commercial games
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 10 Apr 1994 04:35:22 +0000
Use of net by pbm companies [was: Cheap commercial games]
marting@rhino.qpsx.oz.au (Martin Gregory)
Mon, 11 Apr 1994 05:38:27 +0000