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From: mlinar@eve.usc.edu (Mitch Mlinar)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: How to get rid of your subscribers - BYTE, An Example
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Date: 9 Aug 88 01:58:05 GMT
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In article <579@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de# dkhusema@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann) writes:
#I've been following all discussions of BYTE RIP so far: All I can say is
#that everyone I read hit the point!
#
#There doesn't seem to be much sense in supporting a mag like BYTE anymore
#with one's money. I used to read BYTE because of its informative articles
#on computer science theory _and_ practise. I don't care about those really
#boring articles concerned with the "127 newest IBM PS/2 compatible keyboard
#brushes with 3D graphic evaluation, tested by BYTE labs ..." 
#
#
#But - I almost forgot: There still is BIX! BIX - The BYTE Replacement?
#I don't know, because it'd be *really* expensive to connect up to BIX 
#from over here, from West Germany. Yes, I mean BIX, "the international
#network."
#

I have submitted the first batch of articles to BIX.  For those of you who
gave me your permission to include your name, I did so.  Otherwise, the rest
are from anonymous people.  It is a 26k file in all!

It is funny that your article brings up BIX on the ARPAnet.  I get a strong
impression that many of the BIXers are envious of ARPAnet...

Their biggest complaint is that "not just anyone" can get on it.  Combining
that with the longevity and size of ARPA only makes it worse; the ARPAnet is
highly regarded over there.

-Mitch