Date:  Wed, 30 Mar 1994 10:42:21 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Message ("your Name



> I thought the internet was supposed to be non-commercial. I hope we



The Internet is actually not a single entity. It's a network of networks,

including commerical segments. I'm pretty sure, however, that neither

the University of Vermont

( >From: Preston Junger <preston.junger[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WINTERMUTE.UVM.EDU>)

                          ^^^

nor The Vermont Education Network

( >Organization: The Vermont Education Network)



is in the business of offering net resources to people for selling

basketball cards.



This is one of the down sides of having our list set up with "SEND=PUBLIC."

Since changing that to private would cause various problems (e.g., rejection

of messages sent by subscribers if they happened to be using a different

machine that day), let's hope that we don't receive enough of this kind of

junk mail to need to make any kind of change.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)