From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: Article-I.D.: ucb.1083 Posted: Sat May 15 00:46:04 1982 Received: Sun May 16 00:31:51 1982 >From ihnss!houxf!ziegler@Ucb-C70 Sat May 15 00:45:54 1982 POSTmark ziegler Wed May 12 10:20:23 1982 To: ihnss!ucbvax!c70:info-cpm Subject: Please forward this article to ARPANET Well folks, here we go again ... I apologize to anyone who has already seen this, but I really would like to get an answer. If anyone at all on ARPANET reads this message, could you please get in touch with me so that I know that it got there? I'm not sure that my earlier attempts have succeeded. HELLO ARPA-FOLKS, CAN YOU HEAR THIS???? Those of us who are non-ARPA have been hearing a lot about all the CP/M goodies that are treasured up at MIT-MC. Many pleas for info have brought no response. Will someone on ARPANET, or someone who knows something about ARPANET >>>>PLEASE<<<< answer the following questions: 1) Is it legal for someone on ARPANET to communicate with someone not on ARPANET? 2) Is it legal for someone on ARPANET to act as a gateway for sending files from ARPANET to other nets? 3) Is there ANYONE, in the entire land of ARPA, who is willing to send some of the files from MIT-MC to someone who will act as a distributor for non-ARPA people? (Provided, of course, that the answer to numbers 1 and 2 are yes - I'm not asking anyone to do anything illegal or unethical.) 4) Is the software at MIT-MC truly public-domain, or is is it only public to those who have ARPA access? Will someone, anyone at all, who knows the answers to these questions please respond directly to me at: ...ihnss!houxf!ziegler as soon as possible? I will collect the answers and send them out for the benefit of others who would like to know. Previous requests for info have fallen on deaf ears (screens?), so I would appreciate ANY response at all from ANYONE on ARPANET, just to make sure that this message got there. Joe Ziegler houxf!ziegler Bell Labs LZ 3F-308 (201) 576-3533