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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Adding commercial access to Usenet
Message-ID: <3077@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 13 Feb 89 20:33:35 GMT
References: <796@n8emr.UUCP> <4524@inco.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <4524@inco.UUCP>, mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
> Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that CIS would be interested in joining
> the net. They make their money from connect and storage fees. ...

> I would expect it to mean the end of the CIS forums.

Nonsense. The CIS forums supply at least two services that Usenet can't:

	Conferencing.
	Huge numbers of binary downloads.

It's just these services I, for example, call CI$ for. And I have the net.
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