Aucbvax.2955 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sat Sep 5 07:34:34 1981 CSNET Cross Network Relaying >From farber@udel Sat Sep 5 07:22:59 1981 It is the intent of CSNET to encourage communications among groups involved in Computer Science Research at Universities and industry. That communications must operate on a number of levels if it to be effective and issues about what constitutes trivial vs non-trivial traffic is not the business of the CSNET administration but rather the business of the community and those at the sites who must pay the communications costs to access the PhoneNet relays and the Telenet charges. As to relaying to the ArpaNet, CSNET offers the best opportunity to create a stable path for communications. As it is now, communications could be stopped easily by some agency stating to the sites doing that relaying under the table - to stop it. As CSNET matures, the organization structure that is being developed will create a rather powerful group that can counterbalance such pressures. Dave ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.