From: frissell@panix.com
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:51:07 +0800
To: "Peter Trei" <cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Subject: Re: Webpage picketing (fwd)
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At 11:33 AM 6/4/97 -6, Peter Trei wrote:
>'Publically funded network backbones'? Can you name one (in the US)? 
>NSFnet and ARPAnet are long dead. Back when they were active, there was 
>considerable debate about the legality of commercial speech on the 
>net, and earlier, doubts about the legality of any traffic (including 
>private email) which was not in support of government funded research.
>(the first big mailing list, the SF-Lovers Digest, had a 
>quasi-underground existence for many years due to this worry).

The Net is technically and legally a private value-added network.  The last 
bit of the then existing backbone was privatized the weekend following the OKC 
bombing in April 1995.  (No relation)

DCF

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