Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!davidbe
From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Adding commercial access to Usenet
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Date: 10 Feb 89 21:12:34 GMT
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lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) said:
-I am wondering what the net's thoughts are on the future (possibly not too
-far) addition of commercially based article distribution services such
-as Compuserve, BIX, etc. to the USENET community.

If they're willing to pay/do their share it doesn't bother me.

The most important feature would have to be the ability to mail back to
the person who sent the message.  Currently there is no convenient way to 
get mail to BIX or Compuserve using conventional uucp methods.  (If I'm wrong
about this, please let me know...I've got some mail I want to send...)

Accountability is just about all I'm asking for.  I'll let others ask for
copyright protection.

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