IP: are you sure I am from UPenn?

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

By the way I am back from Tokyo (just) and after some rest, I will send a
Tokyo Diary entry. Last week while I was gone, the Philly INQUIRER
published a story about your truly. It is on my Web site under the NEW entry


Dave


VANITY E-MAIL BUGS COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS
A new e-mail service offered by New Century Technologies gives customers an
e-mail address sporting a prestigious university domain name for $25 a year.
The customer, who must have a valid e-mail address somewhere else, then
receives mail addressed to user () DukeU com, or whatever school is chosen. The
vanity address closely resembles the real thing, except it ends in .com
instead of .edu.  The universities aren't happy about the impersonation:
"You can't assume people understand that the address isn't affiliated with
the university somehow," says Florida State's director of Web 
development. A
member of Georgia Tech's licensing committee is even more adamant:  "They
can't do that.  People can't sell anything over the Internet and use our
name without paying us royalties.  We will fight this."  (Chronicle of
Higher Education Academe Today 19 Sep 96)