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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: On seeing the differences in what is and what should be
Message-ID: <832@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-May-87 02:13:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.832
Posted: Sun May  3 02:13:01 1987
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in article <676@van-bc.UUCP>, sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) says:
> 
> 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
> 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. 

That's EMAIL. Besides, the question is amount of material. Not the number of
users. I seriously doubt that they get 10 megabytes worth of postings every
week (based upon 20 megs sitting in our /netnews directory right now, with a 2
week expiration period). I have participated in some discussions on national
services. And found that I really could not justify talking about education,
the ieal BBSprogram, or whatever, when I was paying $7/hour for the privilige.
And I certainly would not be able to get the large amount of Unix information
available via USENET, not to mention things like comp.arch and mod.os and
other technical newsgroups of that sort.

The EXXX-Tasy Channel sends hard-core porno-flicks over a satellite link, I
really don't see what the problem is with the Stargate Project sending
uncensored material over a satellite link. Except that the idea offends
sensitive sensibilities ("Oh my GAWD! Spending all that money to ship
TALK.POLITICS!"). After all, what The EXXTasy Channel does is uplink their
stuff to the satellite, which broadcasts it, then individuals with dishes &
decoders decode it at the other end.... sound like a familiar scheme? 
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