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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Broadcast Netnews
Message-ID: <448@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 08:03:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 08:03:53 1984
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It won't get off the ground, eh?  If I were you, I wouldn't put
a lot of money into that prediction.  And I should know.
Some things happen *much* faster than you might expect.
Am I being oblique?  Yeah.  I don't want to ruin the big announcement.
Stay tuned.  And watch the skies--and your televisions. 

--Lauren--

P.S.  Three additional points:

  1) Broadcasters are generally unwilling to transmit materials
     without adequate screening.  Whether or not lawsuits would
     actually occur is beside the point.  The broadcast operators
     make their own rules in this regard.

  2) A broadcast service would (will) have very high visibility
     *very* quickly.  The current "low profile" of Usenet
     will vanish into the wind, whether we like it or not.  	

  3) While the doomsayers predict, there are those of us who
     have been working, so far with success, to deal with the
     situation.  Once again--watch the skies.

--LW--