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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: On seeing the differences in what is and what should be
Message-ID: <676@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 11:54:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: van-bc.676
Posted: Mon Apr 27 11:54:47 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Apr-87 07:22:52 EDT
References: <520@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU> <213200002@mirror> <191@brandx.klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <191@brandx.klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU> webber@klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU (Webber) writes:
>In article <213200002@mirror>, rs@mirror.UUCP writes:
>> /* Written  2:39 am  Apr 23, 1987 by webber@aramis.rutgers.edu */
>> >Incidently, it is interesting that you didn't come up with an
>> >alternative source of uncensored opinion/dialogue on the scale of
>> >usenet...
>> What about GENie, CompuServe, etc:  uncensored, pay-as-you-go, with lots
 
>I strongly doubt that any of the services you mention carry anywhere
>near the number of users that usenet does.  Also, the interface for
>users is quite different (particularly in terms of the amount of time

Last statistics I saw printed (Info World or similiar type weekly news rag,
sometime late last fall) place register users of Compuserve EMail at about
275,000 users. Telemail was in third place with about 80,000. 




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Stuart Lynne	ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532