Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!cca!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!smith From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Re: ads on the net - (nf) Message-ID: <258@umn-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 21:08:44 EDT Article-I.D.: umn-cs.258 Posted: Sun Jun 5 21:08:44 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 21:03:30 EDT Lines: 17 #R:utah-gr:-60000:umn-cs:7700002:000:696 umn-cs!smith Nov 8 10:45:00 1982 Concerning commercial use of Arpanet: You're misunderstanding the meaning of the word "commercial". Non commercial use is work on government contracts; commercial use means using the net for non government related work. Believe it or not, places like BBN take the distinction seriously. When I was there they had several 10's and 20's with megabytes of routine mail traffic between them. None of this traffic used Arpanet lines; they had a local switch to handle all of that. If you look at SIGSOFT's "Software Engineering Notes" you'll see the distinction again. You can submit articles via Arpanet FTP as long as the work in the article was supported by a government contract. Rick.