Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!news.miami.edu!mthvax!wb8foz From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BIX vs. Internet Message-ID: <1991Jun22.031538.11376@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 22 Jun 91 03:15:38 GMT References: <1991Jun18.150036.4198@GTEtele.com> <1991Jun19.014359.646@shaman.com> <1403@zinn.MV.COM> Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Distribution: na Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers Lines: 21 mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) writes: {bix gateways-none} >I imagine that BIX is mindful of this goal and will do something >about it. It only makes sense. But BUX is in it for dollars, not cents. I've noticed, for example, that even their Unix column NEVER prints the author's Internet address. Rather it says "Write to X c/o the Editors" or such. Somehow that closed mentality reminds me of IBM's "we are God, and we won't talk to anyone else" anti-ASCII/pro 3270 additude. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335