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From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: The Moderator Who Doesn't Give A Shit
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Date: 18 Feb 91 15:31:06 GMT
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cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:
> I think we should seriously consider, also, that the force behind Prodigy
> -- IBM -- is also the force behind ANS, Inc., the nonprofit firm
> maneuvering to take over the privatized successor to the INTERNET, the
> NREN.  It makes me worry for the future of newsgroups.

All I ask is that you keep in mind that IBM is made up of many different
entities, and that it is quite likely the PRODIGY people have no connection
with the ANS people.

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