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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re^2: Notes from inside a Klein bottle
Message-ID: <1648@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 06:02:55 GMT
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karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:

<sewall@uconnvm.bitnet writes:
<   Last month's "scoop" was about the Internet gateway to Compu$erve...

<Perhaps I'm missing something important, but I find it very difficult
<to understand how anyone can claim to have "gotten the scoop" on a bit
<of information which was announced to the entire Usenet plus the
<entire subscribership of info-nets@think.com some 6+ weeks ago.

<Of course, I also failed to understand why the existence of the
<gateway appeared in a "rumors" column (PCWeek) _after_ that same
<announcement.  So perhaps I'm a bit slow.  Or perhaps I just don't
<understand things that are ugly and media-marketing-like (with
<apologies for the redundancy).

Maybe it's because CIS *sdtill* hasn't announced the existence of the
gateway to it's users.

BTW, I somehow missed both of the announcements you mention. I read
a *lot* of newsgroups, but I didn't see anything about the gateway
until after reading about it the vaporware column. So much for "announced 
to the entire Usenet"...
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