I totally agree with your shout - but you try it on your local NHS telecomms
people and they will have a fit if you even have the potential to access the
Internet from the same machine - whether you do it at the same time or not.
The whole thing is rather academic, given that no-one has ever specified
what the penalties are for breaking the Code of Connection (maybe they
have - disconnection? excommunication? fatwa declared by the IMG?).
A (-:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Trefor Roscoe
> Sent: 15 October 1998 14:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: GP-UK on the NHSnet?
>
> Not allowed to run both AT THE SAME TIME. Sorry for the shout
> but the whole point about the code of connection is not to allow
> people in who should not get in. Unless connected to both and
> able to run in parallel it is not a problem. It may become a problem
> in practices when they get ISDN which is connected all day and
> can be accessed over a LAN. Any machine with a modem in woill need
> taking off the net or have its modem taken out. I have an NHSnet
> connection on this laptop, plus an aol connection and btinternet.
> Only if I were to dial up bt health link and then fire up aol
> using ip/tcp connection built into it would I be breaking the code.
> BTW, it should not work, it should crashes, presumably the
> firewall won't let it connect. It does work with a pstn connection to the
> University server that I have. But I haven't tried it with
> bthealthnet, honest (huge winking grin)
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