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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Changes to the monthly postings (for rec.humor.funny)
Message-ID: <25732@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 89 17:32:51 GMT
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>I am quite reluctant to have Compu$erve (or UPI, or BIX) gaining income by
>redistributing USENET newsgroups.

I hate to tell you this, but there's been an agreement with Delphi
going on for over two years. All of the Mac stuff gets gatewayed back
and forth betwen the Mac forums on Delphi and comp.sys.mac.* (and
binaries/source as well). It's made the Mac groups stronger by bringing
in an audience of knowledgable people, including many developers.

There's some USENET stuff going on already in the UNIX forum of CI$. And
every so often I see USENET stuff leak over into one of the CI$ groups I
monitor. 

And if that's not good enough for you, USENET stuff is being re-used and
reproduced in any number of Mac User Group Newsletters, SF Fanzines and
other publications. 

And, of course, OtherRealms is also posted to OtherRealms (has been for
three years) as well as other BBSes, and excerpts go to CI$.

So you may think you don't like it -- but it's been going on in some form or
another for many, many years, and the results as I've seen it have only been
possible. It definitely hasn't hurt USENET.


Chuq Von Rospach/Editor,OtherRealms/Member SFWA                 chuq@apple.com

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