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========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:24:11 -0400
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Dick Mills <dmills@ALBANY.NET>
Subject: Re: history of acceptable use policies
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At 11:14 AM 9/16/97 -0700, David Smith wrote:
>I guess that by that time this was pretty much a dead letter since it would have been impossible to stop commercial traffic over the backbone coming from other networks. I read one source that said congress formally changed the NSF mandate in this regard in 1993.
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>I guess that now these kind of network wide AUP's are unenforceable. Were they ever formally abandoned, or did they just fall by the wayside?
I don't have the actual answer to your question David, but I do have an impression.
It was the web protocol that changed everything.
a) The web is non-intrusive in that you get nothing unless you ask for it. Using email
or Usenet protocols for commercial purposes, by contrast, were very intrusive and
annoying. Note that spamming is still hotly opposed,even today.
b) It became rapidly apparent to everyone using the web that the commercial content
on the added substantially to the value of the Internet. Whether commercial or
non-commercial uses are premier today can be a matter of fireside debate. The point though,
is that we can no longer imagine the net without both sectors.
Together, these two factors made opposition to commercial use dissolve naturally.
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
At 11:14 AM 9/16/97 -0700, David Smith wrote:
>I guess that by that time this was pretty much a dead letter since it would have been impossible to stop commercial traffic over the backbone coming from other networks. I read one source that said congress formally changed the NSF mandate in this regard in 1993.
>
>I guess that now these kind of network wide AUP's are unenforceable. Were they ever formally abandoned, or did they just fall by the wayside?
I don't have the actual answer to your question David, but I do have an impression.
It was the web protocol that changed everything.
a) The web is non-intrusive in that you get nothing unless you ask for it. Using email
or Usenet protocols for commercial purposes, by contrast, were very intrusive and
annoying. Note that spamming is still hotly opposed,even today.
b) It became rapidly apparent to everyone using the web that the commercial content
on the added substantially to the value of the Internet. Whether commercial or
non-commercial uses are premier today can be a matter of fireside debate. The point though,
is that we can no longer imagine the net without both sectors.
Together, these two factors made opposition to commercial use dissolve naturally.
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