Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1457 news.sysadmin:822 news.misc:1649 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!swlabs!jack From: jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin,news.misc Subject: Re: Is a NEED for more COMMERCIAL usenet feed providers? Message-ID: <1509@swlabs.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 88 01:44:09 GMT References: <991@gethen.UUCP> <1466@swlabs.UUCP> <990117@ttardis.UUCP> Reply-To: jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) Organization: Software Labs, Ltd. Easton, CT USA Lines: 36 In article <990117@ttardis.UUCP> rlw@ttardis (Ron Wilson) writes: >Isaac Rabinovitch does have a good point about Telenet's concern for >not using PC-Pursuit for "commercial" puposes. > >What others of you seem to miss is that due to the high volume and "universial" >distribution of netnews traffic, Telenet may very well consider that to be >"commercial." As one of the "others" who are missing the point (some point or another) could you please quote where Telenet forbids "commercial" use of PC Pursuit? I have read my PC Pursuit Terms and Conditions time and time again and I don't even see the word commercial in the text. Is there a later version? Mine is dated 9/86. Let me point out that by moving potentially commercial data like Usenet news it could not be construed that you "(E) you have resold or attempted to resell or further distribute PC Pursuit access services". If PC Pursuit was selling news feeds then this wording would indeed be a stopper, sort of like the problem with redistributing what is received from Compu$erve. But they don't and its not. >E-mail traffic, on the other hand is very low volume (relatively) on a >"site to site" basis (not to mention the more personal "flavour"); therefore, >I suspect that Telenet would have few if any objections to that use. I distinctly remember an early PC Pursuit description that indicated that the service was for personal and small business use. Definitely indicates that commercial use was ok. (Anyway, what is so sinister about commerce?) I will close by saying that I get my uunet feed via PC Pursuit. But the lines into DC (especially at 2400) have been rather busy lately. So please, disregard what I've said and don't chance calling uunet via PC Pursuit. It will leave the lines open for ME. :-) -- Jack Bonn, <> Software Labs, Ltd, Box 451, Easton CT 06612 uunet!swlabs!jack