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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Re: Scary Thought ...
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Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 01:15:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  6 01:15:45 1987
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In article <477@gouldsd.UUCP> mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
>
>	Another small point: running news on a PC with uulink is
>still a longish way away. Why ? Well, the news software actually
>pipes a whole bunch of commands through a series of pipes that
>would gag an IBM in no time at all....

I'm not sure, but I seem to remember that Lauren's product is sort of an
integrated uucp/mail system.  In case anybody hasn't noticed lately, it is
quite possible to recieve/post news via normal uucp mail, assuming the
existance of a cooperative netnews site within path addressability.

I'm not too worried about PC's flooding the network.  Like death, it's bound
to happen sooner or later.  Even if MS-DOS and other native mode operating
systems can't handle it, you can expect Apple, Atari and Commodore to be
selling some kind of unix compatible systems within the next year or two.

Hopefully, as the problem evolves, so will the solutions.  Stargate is one
possible solution, some rev x version of fido-net may take care of the PC
crowd.  There are, of course, the commericial networks, just chock full of
people doing pretty much what we do on usenet.
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)