What is Internet Access?
Not long ago, the yard stick (is this politically incorrect language?) was the ownership by one of an email address of the form user@host.domain For example, one of my email addresses is: rehn@cleo.murdoch.edu.au, where rehn is the user name, cleo is the host and murdoch.edu.au is the domain. But I have another address: rehn@smokey.eepo.dialix.oz.au Now, this second address looks impressive. I have Internet access! However, all I can do with this type of Internet access is read and post email and news. It is a UUCP (Unix to Unix CoPy) account only. I cannot do file transfer (FTP), gopher, browse the World Wide Web or engage in the most recent delight of the Internet: desktop video conferencing using Cornell University’s magical CU-SeeMe. To have full Internet access, I need an account on a machine that is fully connected to the network, so that I can do all the above and more. Even using the TCP/IP protocol suite is not synonymous with having full Internet access: many government and c
