UUNET Customer Liaison: USENET "netiquette" Reminder

Rich Salz rsalz at osf.org
Thu Jan 19 12:47:08 PST 1995


> It would appear that UUNET does not consider themselves to be a common
> carrier any more -- they now claim the right to cut sites off for
> violating netiquette.

Strange.

First, they were never a common carrier:  they went to some legal pains
to get registered as an enhanced service provider.  I don't know what
the differences are, but when the first "Internet Porn" article by Joe
Abernathy appeared years ago, Rick wasn't worried.  He told me ESP was
better then CC, but I don't remember why (perhaps it was no FCC regulation?)

It's unclear how this new policy affects their ESP status.
	/r$







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