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From: spietrow@atlas.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz)
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: ... (and some general opinions)
Message-ID: <255@atlas.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-May-87 08:52:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: atlas.255
Posted: Fri May  1 08:52:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 3-May-87 01:44:39 EDT
References: <213200002@mirror>
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in article <213200002@mirror>, rs@mirror.UUCP says:
> /* 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
> of people there talking about lots of things.  It's silly to get all
> misty-eyed because something's evolving away from what you like,
> especially when more equitable alternatives available exist.

One sysop in particular on CompuServe deletes notices that have anything to
do with competing services.  In fact, some postings that I put on CompuServe
clarifying something a user had a question about were deleted.

The user remarked about a feature that wasn't available in a certain version 
of a program that I had written.  I wrote back to that person and told him 
that the current version had what he wanted and it was on PeopleLink (another
network)....and the next time I logged in the notice was gone.  In follow up 
postings, it became evident that the sysop deleted my notice since I'm 
associated with another network.