Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ccvaxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!) - Let's he Message-ID: <10300006@ccvaxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 01:48:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.10300006 Posted: Mon Jan 28 01:48:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Jan-85 07:03:09 EST References: <1038@opus.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:opus:-103800:ccvaxa:10300006:000:894 Nf-From: ccvaxa!preece Jan 28 00:48:00 1985 > I believe the only reason someone could say that Stargate has been > kept a secret is that person is unsubscribed to net.news and > several of the other news groups were the discussion has been > going on for sometime. ---------- This is an area of sufficiently broad interest (no matter where you stand, you've got to admit it's a fundamental change in the nature of the net) that someone should have thought to say something in one of the more widely read lists long ago. I don't think anyone set out to keep it a secret, I just think nobody thought of it. ---------- > ... How long can we expect our employers (or schools) > will foot the bill for these non work (non academic) news > groups? ---------- As long as the perceived benefit of the technical material is higher than the perceived cost of the non-technical material. scott preece gould/csd-urbana ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece