Re: Defining "on the Internet"

Stan Barber <sob@academ.com> Mon, 15 August 1994 19:32 UTC

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From: Stan Barber <sob@academ.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 12:31:56 -0500
In-Reply-To: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker) "Re: Defining "on the Internet"" (Aug 13, 7:57pm)
To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu>, George Herbert <gwh@crl.com>
Subject: Re: Defining "on the Internet"
Cc: Tony Rutkowski <amr@isoc.org>, Mike Bauer <bauer@tig.com>, Mike Schwartz <schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu>, com-priv@psi.com, inet-marketing@einet.net

>>3.  Global email:  All of the email systems which can exchange mail with,
...
>Mention of Usenet might be helpful here and might not.  Depends on the
>reading level of the writers ;-)

>The formal text definitely should mention the major highlights:  Usenet,
>most commercial email systems, and any connected LAN email systems.

I would not use the word "connected" as that might confuse folks with the
previous definitions. I would use "any LAN-based email system connected
via an appropriate gateway" instead. Perhaps a nit, but maybe not.


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Defining "on the Internet" Dave Crocker
Re: Defining "on the Internet" Tony Rutkowski
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