Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: short; was (Re: Usenet: Is it 'dying'? [LONG]) Message-ID: <6205@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 3 Sep 88 06:41:13 GMT References: <187@limbic.UUCP> <16463@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 17 In article <16463@apple.Apple.COM> fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) writes: >USENET is so richly connected that it would take an act of Congress >to shut it down. It has been speculated by somebody who certainly knows more about this than I, that it would probbaly take more than that. ``Pssst, hey buddy, wanna score a newsfeed ?'' USENET, just say NO! And what is California'a biggest cash crop ? -- ``Listen buddy, you'd better become a democracy by Thursday or we'll bomb the hell out of you'' richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard