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Subject: Re: Re: ads on the net - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 21:08:44 EDT
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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.