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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Usenet: Is it 'dying'?
Message-ID: <1300@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 88 08:08:32 GMT
References: <187@limbic.UUCP> <16463@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <16463@apple.Apple.COM>, fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) writes:
> Answer: No.

Dead on.

> USENET is so richly connected that it would take an act of Congress
> or a nuclear war to shut it down.  I stopped worrying about the death
> of the network in 1983 when USENET went over 500 sites.

Not to recommend that people defy Congress or anything, but I can't see
how Congress could possibly shut the net down without completely
ruining computer-computer communication in general.

> Have you sent in a UUCP map update to your regional coordinator
> recently?

Yes.  Has he posted it?  (How recent is *your* u.can.qc.1?  (Canadian
sites: no need to tell me; I got it too.))

					der Mouse

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