On Thu, 25 Jun 1992 18:15:09 EDT "Steve Traugott [UUs-L]"
<[log in to unmask]> said:
 
>They don't  seem to understand how  much these facilities mean  to some,
>and  they don't  seem to  realize  they'll lose  subscribers by  messing
>around like this. As a non-profit, they can't (shouldn't, anyway) afford
>to not use the facilities they own to their fullest potential.
 
My guess is that they understand very  well, and that the reason why they
don't want  to have FTP  and TELNET on  their system is,  precisely, that
they want their  system to be used to its  fullest potential for whatever
it is it was  originally bought to do (sorry, my  knowledge of the "well"
is very limited), and not  as a general-purpose Internet access facility.
Due to their non-profit nature,  they would probably be quite competitive
in this respect and attract a bunch of people with no interest whatsoever
in the other services they are offering.
 
  Eric