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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The ZMAG/ST Report Mailing List
Message-ID: <2050@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 89 14:26:53 GMT
References: <511@orbit.UUCP>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <511@orbit.UUCP> steve@pnet51.cts.com (Steve Yelvington) writes:
>Let me reiterate the arguments against posting the magazine to a newsgroup:

>* It's not in character. ..
>* It's a commercial enterprise that carries advertising, ...
>* It's excessively long. ...
>* There really isn't very much interest in it. ...

and he expands on these four ideas.  However, there is an answer
to each of these comments and I will give the short version
of each.  In separate posting, I proposed the creation of a new
group "comp.sys.atari.newsletter", specifically for things like 
ZMag, ST Rpt, Lustletter, and if we are lucky, others.
 
 (1)	Things can and do change
 (2)	So what?  I know that commercials have been on the net for
	years; a few blatent, many subtle.
 (3)	No one is forced to subscribe to the newsletter group.
 (4)	The evidence Steve gives is flawed by the fact that most believe
	there is a better way.  Perhaps if they are forced into a corner,
	they will take up his offer to run a mailing list.

-- 
    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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