On Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:14:00 N "H.J. Woltring, fax/tel +31.40.413 744"
<WOLTRING@HNYKUN53> said:
>If if have been properly informed through the grapevine, there is an
>increasing tendency to phase out BITNET (and its affiliated nets -
>Netnorth, GULFnet, BITNETJP, EARN ?) in favour of pure Internet
>connectivity with its possibilities for TELNET, FTP, Gopher, WAIS, etc.
BITNET has indeed lost 61 nodes this year, but there are two different
issues here. People get Internet connectivity so they can use TELNET et
al in addition to BITNET services, which is a good thing obviously. A
subset of these people then decide, usually at a very high managerial
level, that BITNET is no longer needed, and can be dropped to save money.
>are the licensors of LISTSERV and LISTEARN in the process of considering
>how to handle the situation of a reducing number of BITNET etc. sites
>that, under current licencing policies, are entitled to run these
>extremely useful packages, and even more so in view of the fact that
>they do serve non-BITNET etc. sites (Internet, UUCP/EUNET, etc.)?
Concretely, what are you trying to say?
Eric
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