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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The article that was, even though I hadn't
Message-ID: <1587@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 13:07:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: ulowell.1587
Posted: Tue Aug  4 13:07:49 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Aug-87 06:37:26 EDT
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Reply-To: page@swan.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) wrote:
>What appeared [in RCN] under my name was actually a USENET posting
...
>All in all I wish that they had warned me ahead of time, at least so I
...
>So watch out USENET posters... you may become magazine authors before you
>know it!

And you might never know it.

I got a "developer's copy" of "Workbench," the newsletter of the Amiga
Atlanta newsgroup.  [Actually the April '87 issue was called
"Workwench," but I digress.]  Although of course nothing like RCN, it
seemed like a pretty nice newsletter.  Imagine my surprise when I
read an article by Bob Page!  Yow!

Other "articles" were by such luminaries as Dave Haynie, Perry Kiv*,
Chuck McManis, Dale Luck and others whom Usenetters are surely
familiar.

Next month came another newsletter, and again I find myself an author,
along with many others.  I think I got three issues before they
stopped sending them to me.  Once there was some small print in the
back thanking "The USENET crew" or some such, presumably for our
cooperation in making Amiga Atlanta's newsletter so full of
information.

Last night at the BCS Amiga Tech Group meeting there was a nice
laser-printed handout of some goodies (like Bryce's cross reference
listings for assmebly hackers) originally from Usenet.

I wonder how many other newsletters are doing this?  It's actually
funny to think of [what we consider to be] Usenet Noise as real
information to others.  Sheeeit, it even gets reposted to People/Link.
Hi Harv -- do you edit it before you repost it?  Joanne Dow of BIX
keeps her ear to Usenet; I'm sure Delphi and Compu$erve do too.

Information sells, friends.

..Bob
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}