Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!ccssrv!perry From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: proposed new distribution category Message-ID: <692@ccssrv.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 04:52:26 GMT References: <757@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <4379@ncar.ucar.edu> <285@van-bc.UUCP> <4386@ncar.ucar.edu> <642@ccssrv.UUCP> <1989Sep23.012427.8789@sq.sq.com> Reply-To: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) Organization: Control-C Software, Inc., Beaverton, OR Lines: 28 In article <1989Sep23.012427.8789@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) writes: Brad> this new proposal wants to specify ... the degree of commercialness. From Randall Atkinson's original posting <757@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>: Atk> "uucpnet" ... would be the UUCP sites' counterpart to the Internet Atk> distribution "inet". Atk> This would permit news traffic which is too commercial for Atk> Internet sites to be sent world-wide without using the Atk> Internet links. Occasionally there is other traffic which ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Atk> is of interest to the UUCP part of the net but would not Atk> be of interest to the Internet. Note that the proposal was for a distribution meaning "don't transport this over the Internet." Although the principal suggested *use* was for messages which might be considered "too commercial", that was not the *meaning*. Brad> if the proposal was implemented, as proposed, as a distribution, how Brad> would you post such a commercial article to U.S. sites only? Right, Brad> you couldn't. You can't specify a regional or national limitation when using the "inet" distribution either, can you? "inet" means "anyplace you can reach on the Internet." "uucpnet" would mean "anyplace you can reach without using the Internet."