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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: Restrictions on Stargate
Message-ID: <716@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 16:30:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 28 16:30:07 1987
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In article <5626@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, jsol@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jon Solomon) writes:
> USENET has *ALWAYS* been a fluctuating network.  [...]
> If ihnp4 decided to stop sending news altogether

Haven't they? :-)

> If we at BU start receiving Stargate, we won't stop MIT from getting
> our USENET feed (but NOT our Stargate feed unless they pay), just
> like it has since we first started receiving netnews.

Except that there will be groups, mod.sources say, which will be coming
in both via normal USEnet mechanisms *and* via Stargate.  The way
things seem to be going, you'll be allowed to send on only those
articles that came in over the phone.  This is counter to the way
USEnet has always worked, and were I netnews admin at BU, I would find
this unacceptable.

					der Mouse

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