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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,news.admin
Subject: Re: No games or picture files for now
Message-ID: <22102@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 88 19:40:47 GMT
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In article <170@falkor.UUCP> heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes:
>Craig Browning (browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP) writes:
>> P.S. To those who suggest Compuserve, YOU go to Compuserve...
>I have an account on Compuserve.  Among other things, I found the new version
>of ZIP about two weeks before it showed up in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  Also,
>files "hang around" in the libraries on Compuserve until it's convenient for
>*me* to get them.  They don't just go away in 1-2 weeks.

I think there is something being overlooked here. There are actually
people who use PCs at work for work. Like me. We already use USENET
for many other things. It is much more efficient of my time to get PC
files off USENET than it would be to go to Compuserve. I don't have to
worry about spending hours to download something to see if it is
useful. I transfer it via 10 megabit per second Ethernet down to my PC
and can use it immediately, without losing my train of thought or
being interrupted. Also the billing is more convenient. We just pay
the phone company and or UUNET one bill. 

The archiving is a lack of USENET but perhaps we should ask UUNET to
perform this service. 

-- 

I speak for myself, not the company.
Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com