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From: vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Adding commercial access to Usenet
Message-ID: <6383@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 89 17:22:45 GMT
References: <796@n8emr.UUCP> <4524@inco.UUCP> <3077@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <3077@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
)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.

	For clarification, I believe that Peter is refering to chats,
what communications people refer to as synchronous conferencing. (As
opposed to asynchronous conferencing, which describes the net and
aspects of CIS as well.)  Chats being multi-user, realtime computer
communications.


)	Huge numbers of binary downloads.

	Isn't this available from the net as well?  And sources too usually?

 

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