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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: The saga of netnews at Denver AT&T (nee Bell Labs, ahh those were the days)
Message-ID: <694@hao.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 00:29:10 EST
Article-I.D.: hao.694
Posted: Tue Nov 15 00:29:10 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Nov-83 20:59:16 EST
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Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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   This is really a deplorable situation. And to think I actually have 
considered trying to get a job there because they might pay more money than
my current government job! ( :-) for those folks here at HAO!)
   I'd also like to mention that failure of Denver AT&T (whatever that is
really called after the Big Breakup) management to come to terms with
USENET has made the "Distribution" feature practically useless here in Colorado,
since they have always been too paranoid to connect with non-Bell sites which 
excludes all other local sites. Thus, articles posted with distribution "co" 
have reached less than half (rough estimation, I admit) of the netnews 
readers in this state, and a lot less percentage than that in this local 
area (Boulder, 25 miles or so from Denver, and even less from the part of 
town where Bell is; lots of their employess [I've met a few via the net] live 
here). 
   Those folks there in Denver, be sure and bring up at your ARG 
meeting that there are qualified potential employees out here looking on this 
in an extremely bad light. I for one could never work for a company that is so
closed-minded that they would actually eliminate all of USENET over one 
offensive joke.

		     GREG
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